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Ceo Stock Ownership Policies: Rhetoric And Reality, Nitzan Shilon
Ceo Stock Ownership Policies: Rhetoric And Reality, Nitzan Shilon
Indiana Law Journal
This Article is the first academic endeavor to analyze the efficacy and transparency of stock ownership policies (SOPs) in U.S. public firms. SOPs generally require managers to hold some of their firms’ stock for the long term. Following the 2008 financial crisis, firms universally adopted these policies and cited them more than any other policy as a key element in their mitigation of risk. However, my analysis of the recent SOPs of S&P 500 CEOs disputes what firms claim about these policies. First, I find that SOPs are extremely ineffectual in making CEOs hold on to their firm’s stock; this …