Erik Lie

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Erik Lie is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin, University of Oregon, University of Notre Dame, University of Iowa, University of Miami

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Finance

#142

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#148

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Management

#523

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#575

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Erik Lie's Degrees

PhD Finance University of California, Berkeley
Masters Finance University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Erik Lie is a Norwegian finance professor at the University of Iowa who published a report about options backdating that led to many investigations by the SEC into the potentially illegal practice. He was the subject of profile in Business Week for his contribution to uncovering options backdating scandals.

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Erik Lie's Published Works

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Published Works

On the Timing of CEO Stock Option Awards (2005) (488)
Does Backdating Explain the Stock Price Pattern Around Executive Stock Option Grants? (2007) (439)
Operating Performance and the Method of Payment in Takeovers (2002) (327)
Dividend changes and catering incentives (2006) (308)
Operating Performance Following Open Market Share Repurchase Announcements (2005) (282)
Excess Funds and Agency Problems: An Empirical Study of Incremental Cash Disbursements (2000) (273)
Multiples Used to Estimate Corporate Value (2002) (251)
What Fraction of Stock Option Grants to Top Executives Have Been Backdated or Manipulated? (2009) (159)
The Role of Personal Taxes in Corporate Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Share Repurchases and Dividends (1999) (151)
The role of investment banker directors in M&A (2014) (140)
Financial Flexibility, Performance, and the Corporate Payout Choice* (2005) (125)
On the Use of Poison Pills and Defensive Payouts by Takeover Targets (2006) (113)
A Comparison of the Motivations for and the Information Content of Different Types of Equity Offerings (2004) (106)
Detecting Abnormal Operating Performance: Revisited (2001) (103)
Price Uncertainty and Corporate Value (2002) (79)
Share repurchases, catering, and dividend substitution* (2013) (79)
Operating performance following dividend decreases and omissions (2005) (77)
Earnings signals in fixed-price and Dutch auction self-tender offers 1 We thank Dave Denis, Craig Du (1998) (70)
Cash holding adjustments and managerial entrenchment (2016) (68)
Do Firms Undertake Self-Tender Offers to Optimize Capital Structure? (2002) (65)
The Effect of Labor Unions on CEO Compensation (2015) (62)
The effect of change-in-control covenants on takeovers: Evidence from leveraged buyouts (2010) (49)
Time Trends and Determinants of the Method of Payment in M&As (2014) (48)
A survey of evidence on domestic and international stock exchange listings with implications for markets and managers (1996) (33)
Option Grant Backdating Investigations and Capital Market Discipline (2009) (30)
The Effect of Poison Pill Adoptions and Court Rulings on Firm Entrenchment (2015) (29)
Measuring Corporate Culture Using Machine Learning* (2018) (27)
Debt-reducing exchange offers (2001) (24)
Financial Restructuring in Fresh Start Chapter 11 Reorganizations (2008) (18)
Corporate Cash Holdings and Acquisitions (2018) (13)
The Role of Bondholder Wealth Expropriation in LBO Transactions (2008) (12)
Financial Restructuring in Fresh‐Start Chapter 11 Reorganizations (2009) (10)
Do Stock Options Overcome Managerial Risk Aversion? Evidence from Exercises of Executive Stock Options (2016) (10)
Enter the Dragon: Import Penetration and Innovation (2017) (8)
Import Penetration and Executive Compensation (2018) (8)
Mixed-Payment Deals and Target Shareholder Preferences for Method of Payment in Corporate Takeovers (2011) (7)
Union Concessions Following Asset Sales and Takeovers (2017) (7)
Dividend Stickiness, Debt Covenants, and Earnings Management (2017) (6)
On the Use (and Abuse) of Stock Option Grants (2007) (6)
The Role of Investment Banker Directors in M&A: Can Experts Help? (2011) (5)
Corporate Activities and the Market Risk Premium (2017) (5)
The Value of Social Networks During Periods of Distress (2012) (5)
Board Independence and Corporate Spending (2018) (3)
The Strategic Use of CEO Compensation in Labor Contract Negotiations (2010) (3)
Trust and Debt Contracting: Evidence From the Backdating Scandal (2017) (2)
Board Independence , Corporate Spending , and Cash Holdings * (2016) (1)
Financial Restructuring in Chapter 11 (2005) (0)
[Organization leaders: why don't we come to an end with problems in priority setting]. (1987) (0)
An empirical analysis of the motivations for and wealth effects of fixed price and Dutch auction self-tender offers (1996) (0)
Capital Structure Following Chapter 11 Reorganizations (2004) (0)
Investor Inattention and Stock Prices: Evidence from Acquisitions with a Choice of Payment Type (2018) (0)
The Effect of Social Interactions on Executive Compensation (2011) (0)
On the Use of Option Grants as a Retention Tool (2019) (0)

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