Impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in Singapore.

This paper employs a Brown and Warner (1985) event study methodology to examine the market effect of ESOP adoption in the Singapore stock market. Using the shareholdermeeting date where the ESOP is passed as the announcement date, this paper finds a positive market reaction. The CAAR from day -50 to...

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Main Authors: Quek, Chaw Ming., Teng, Yong Sing.
Other Authors: Ding, David Kuan Yong
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Published: 2008
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-106132023-05-19T05:41:37Z Impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in Singapore. Quek, Chaw Ming. Teng, Yong Sing. Ding, David Kuan Yong Nanyang Business School DRNTU::Business::Finance::Equity This paper employs a Brown and Warner (1985) event study methodology to examine the market effect of ESOP adoption in the Singapore stock market. Using the shareholdermeeting date where the ESOP is passed as the announcement date, this paper finds a positive market reaction. The CAAR from day -50 to day 0 is 4.5626% and significant at the 0.01 level. Moreover, although the AAR on day 0 is not significant,the AAR on day -1 is 1.0228%, significant at the 0.01 level. 2008-09-24T07:45:42Z 2008-09-24T07:45:42Z 1999 1999 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/10613 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
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Quek, Chaw Ming.
Teng, Yong Sing.
Impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in Singapore.
description This paper employs a Brown and Warner (1985) event study methodology to examine the market effect of ESOP adoption in the Singapore stock market. Using the shareholdermeeting date where the ESOP is passed as the announcement date, this paper finds a positive market reaction. The CAAR from day -50 to day 0 is 4.5626% and significant at the 0.01 level. Moreover, although the AAR on day 0 is not significant,the AAR on day -1 is 1.0228%, significant at the 0.01 level.
author2 Ding, David Kuan Yong
author_facet Ding, David Kuan Yong
Quek, Chaw Ming.
Teng, Yong Sing.
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author Quek, Chaw Ming.
Teng, Yong Sing.
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title Impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in Singapore.
title_short Impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in Singapore.
title_full Impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in Singapore.
title_fullStr Impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in Singapore.
title_full_unstemmed Impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in Singapore.
title_sort impact of employee stock option plan adoption announcements on shareholder wealth in singapore.
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