Sarbanes-Oxley Act and patterns in stock returns around executive stock option exercise disclosures

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 297-332

  Bartov, Eli ^a   Faurel, Lucile ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee stock options; Form 4 filings; Insider trading; Private information; Sarbanes Oxley Act

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919626167     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12100     Document Type: Article

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