"Stock-based compensation is the standard solution to agency problems between shareholders and managers. In a dynamic rational expectations equilibrium model with asymmetric information we show that although stock-based compensation causes managers to work harder, it also induces them to hide...

In this case study, the former CEO of a large telecommunication company filed a lawsuit against her former employer that alleged that the company's contract breach resulted in the loss ESO grants and diminished the value of the vested ESOs that she held at the time of the alleged contract...