This paper demonstrates that executive compensation convexity, measured as the sensitivity of managerial equity compensation portfolios to stock volatility, predicts firm-specific crashes. A bottom-to-top decile change in compensation convexity results in a 21% increase in a firm's crash risk...

This paper presents a methodology to examine the multivariate tail dependence of the implied volatility of equity options as an early warning indicator of systemic risk within the financial sector. Using non-parametric methods of estimating changes in the dependence structure in response to...

Many studies on employee stock option plans state that the favorable accounting treatment, even if not declared, has often been one of the main reasons for this form of compensation. According to that view, professionals and scholars forecasted that recognition required by IFRS 2 would imply a...