Modifying the Black-Scholes-Merton model to calculate the cost of employee stock options

Managerial Finance

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 2-32

  Finnerty, John D ^a,b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LLP   (United States)

Author keywords

ESOs; Options; Valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996558993     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MF-12-2012-0257     Document Type: Article

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