Abstract
Executive Stock Options (ESOs) give top-managers the right, granted by their company, to buy shares of their company’s stock for a predetermined within a fixed period of time, possibly after a vesting period. In the meantime ESOs are adopted in companies all over the world, mainly for reasons of enhancing executives’ incentives to work harder and realizing a situation of optimal risk sharing between shareholders and top-management.
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Menichetti, M.J. (2004). Accustomed Swiss Thoroughness and Accuracy in Executive Stock Option Programs?. In: Geberl, S., Kaufmann, HR., Menichetti, M.J., Wiesner, D.F. (eds) Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Finanzdienstleistungsbereich. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2651-7_17
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