Geography and CEO luck: where do CEOs tend to be lucky?

Chintrakarn, Jiraporn and Jiraporn
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Pornsit Jiraporn

Applied Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 21, issue 2, 125-128

Abstract: CEOs are 'lucky' when they receive stock option grants on days when the stock price is the lowest in the month of the grant, implying opportunistic timing (Bebchuk et al ., 2010). We extend Bebchuk et al . (2010) by investigating the geographic peer effects of CEO luck. Our evidence shows that a CEO is significantly more likely to be lucky when other CEOs in the surrounding area are not lucky. It appears that a CEO tends to practice opportunistic timing of option grants when such a practice is less prevalent and thus less noticeable in the nearby area, probably in order to avoid detection. We estimate that the marginal geographic effect on a given CEO's luck is 18.36%, which is both statistically and economically significant. Our results suggest that regulators should look for corporate opportunistic behaviour where it is not expected.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2013.826866

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