کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5090696 1375642 2010 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Do executive stock options induce excessive risk taking?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Do executive stock options induce excessive risk taking?
چکیده انگلیسی

We examine whether executive stock options can induce excessive risk taking by managers in firms' security issue decisions. We find that CEOs whose wealth is more sensitive to stock return volatility due to their option holdings are more likely to choose debt over equity as a capital-raising vehicle. More importantly, the pattern holds not only in firms that are underlevered relative to their optimal capital structure but also in overlevered firms. This evidence is inconsistent with executive stock options aligning the interests of managers and shareholders; rather, it supports the hypothesis that stock options sometimes make managers take on too much risk and in the process pursue suboptimal capital structure policies.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Banking & Finance - Volume 34, Issue 10, October 2010, Pages 2518-2529
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