That would have been my guess. However, about 2/3 of exercised & held options are options that would not have expired for another 4yrs. See table 5 in the same paper.
Be careful! You’re addressing a different logical question—actually the inverse of the point I was making.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”
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