André, Paul; Boyer, M. Martin; Gagné, Robert - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002
This paper looks at the timing chosen by CEOs to exercise their stock options and to sell their shares of stock … exercise their options and/or sell their shares, and when other top managers should. Using a tournament approach we find that … other top executives should exercise their stock options later than the CEO. We test this model using an unique data set of …