Psychological Factors and Stock Option Exercise
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 114 (2) , 601-627
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556089
Abstract
We investigate stock option exercise decisions by over 50,000 employees at seven corporations. Controlling for economic factors, psychological factorKeywords
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