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Firm Performance and Compensation-Based Stock Trading by Corporate Executives

In: Advances In Quantitative Analysis Of Finance And Accounting

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  • Zahid Iqbal

    (Texas Southern University, USA)

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Many firms increase equity-based compensation during poor performance to strengthen managerial incentives. Increasing equity-based compensation may, however, trigger stock selling by high-ownership executives who diversify their investment portfolios. In this study, we examine whether such compensation-based stock sales depend on a firm's financial performance. Our findings show that executives do not sell stock in response to stock option awards during declining earnings. This is true even for the high ownership executives. These findings suggest that increasing equity-based compensation during poor performance seems to achieve the incentive-alignment goal for the managers. Our findings show that the high ownership managers sell shares for diversification only when the firm's earnings are rising.

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  • Zahid Iqbal, 2006. "Firm Performance and Compensation-Based Stock Trading by Corporate Executives," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Cheng-Few Lee (ed.), Advances In Quantitative Analysis Of Finance And Accounting, chapter 2, pages 37-58, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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