The executive stock options indexed to the market are useful as a compensation scheme in that the indexed options protect shareholders from rewarding executives excessively during market upturns. Despite the usefulness of indexed options, most of the large ¯rms in the US have not granted an indexed option. According to academic researches on executive stock options, the probability of expiring in the money is too small to o®er risk- averse executives incentives to work more e±ciently. This paper develops a new indexed option model and explores the incentive e®ects. While there is a similar indexation feature between the existing indexed options and the new one, a di®erent payo® structure has a signi¯cant in°uence on option values and incentive e®ects. We show that the new indexed option has the higher probabilities of expiring in the money and increases incentive e®ects relative to the existing one.
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ABSTRACT 1 Introduction 2 An Averaging Indexed Executive Stock Option Model 2.1 Probability of Expiring In The Money 2.2 Implications of Option Prices 3 Incentive E®ects 3.1 Discussion on Value Incentive E®ects in Johnson and Tian 3.2 Value Incentive E®ects 3.3 Risk Incentive E®ects 4 Conclusion References Table
저자
Hwa-Sung Kim [ Division of Business Administration, Kwangwoon University ]