What is back dating stock
26-Feb-2020 17:21
This pioneering study was published in the Journal of Finance in 1997, and is definitely worth reading.In a study that I started in 2003 and disseminated in the first half of 2004 and that was published in Management Science in May 2005 (available at I found that stock prices also tend to decrease before the grants.For several years, Micrel allowed its employees to choose the lowest price for the stock within 30 days of receiving the options.After these stock option terms came to the attention of the IRS in 2002, it worked out a secret deal with Micrel that would allow Micrel to escape million in taxes and required the IRS to keep quiet about the option terms.
By the end of the 1990s, the aggregate price pattern had become so pronounced that I thought there was more to the story than just grants being timed before corporate insiders predicted stock prices to increase.
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