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conforms with data from 1983 to 2015 on far-out-of-the-money put options on the U.S. S&P 500 and analogous indices for other … countries. The analysis uses two types of data—indicative prices on OTC contracts offered by a large financial firm and market … data provided by OptionMetrics, Bloomberg, and Berkeley Options Data Base. The options-pricing formula involves a …
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identified with data on multiple option grants per employee and we apply this model to the disposition of options received in the …
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Although exercise prices for executive stock options can be set either below or above the grant-date market price, in practice virtually all options are granted at the money. We offer an economic rationale for this apparent puzzle, by showing that pay-to-performance incentives for risk-averse...
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We investigate the importance of ambiguity, or Knightian uncertainty, in executives' decisions about when to exercise stock options. We develop an empirical estimate of ambiguity and include it in regression models alongside the more traditional measure of risk, equity volatility. We show that...
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