Firm Performance, Capital Structure and the Tax Benefits of Employee Stock Options
Preprint
- 1 January 2002
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper analyzes the relation between the capital structure of a firm and the tax benefits realized from the exercise of stock options. Theory suggests thatKeywords
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