Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the risk-incentive effect of CEO stock options in the banking industry. Design/methodology/approach - For a sample of industrial mergers, Williams and Rao find that the risk-incentive effect of CEO stock options is associated with higher...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the risk‐incentive effect of CEO stock options in the banking industry. Design/methodology/approach – For a sample of industrial mergers, Williams and Rao find that the risk‐incentive effect of CEO stock options is associated with higher...

We propose a rationale for why firms often return to the equity market shortly after their initial public offering (IPO). We argue that hard to value firms conduct smaller IPOs, and that they return to the equity market conditional on positive valuation signal from the stock market. Thus,...

We propose a rationale for why firms often return to the equity market shortly after their initial public offering (IPO). We argue that hard to value firms conduct smaller IPOs, and that they return to the equity market conditional on positive valuation signal from the stock market. Thus,...