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CEO Age, compensation contracts and risk-taking

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CSR and Family CEO: The Moderating Role of CEO’s Age

Journal of Business Ethics, 2020
This study examines to what extent different types of CEOs in family firms influence external and internal stakeholder-related CSP as compared to CEOs in nonfamily firms. Linking family CEO and nonfamily CEO with CSR outcomes, we provide evidence that family CEOs are positively associated with both external and internal CSR, whereas nonfamily CEOs ...
Olivier Meier
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CEO age and analysts forecast properties

Asian Review of Accounting, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess whether there is an association between CEO age and analysts forecast properties (particularly forecast accuracy and bias/optimism). CEOs, having the central role in managing firms, can significantly influence the financial and non-financial decisions in an organisation.
Imran Haider, Nigar Sultana, Harjinder Singh   +2 more
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The acquisitiveness of youth: CEO age and acquisition behavior

Journal of Financial Economics, 2013
Abstract I demonstrate that acquisitions are accompanied by large, permanent increases in Chief Executive Officer (CEO) compensation, which create strong financial incentives for CEOs to pursue acquisitions earlier in their career. Accordingly, I document that a firm's acquisition propensity is decreasing in the age of its CEO: a firm with a CEO who ...
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The Greyer the Greener: CEO Age and Green Innovation

Business Strategy and the Environment
ABSTRACTAmidst conflicting perspectives on the impact of CEO age on the adoption of risky strategies with long‐term environmental consequences, this study investigates the relation between CEO age and green innovation performance. Leveraging a 12‐year dataset of Chinese listed firms, we find that older CEOs promote higher levels of green innovation ...
Umair Bin Yousaf
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CEO age and CEO gender: Are female CEOs older than their male counterparts?

Finance Research Letters, 2016
Abstract Motivated by the debate on gender inequality, we study CEO gender and CEO age. Because women face significantly more obstacles in advancing their careers, it may take them longer to reach the top position, i.e. the chief executive officer (CEO). If this is the case, female CEOs should be older than their male counterparts on average.
Pradit Withisuphakorn, Pornsit Jiraporn
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CEO's age and acquisition behaviors of REITs

Real Estate Economics, 2021
AbstractThis paper examines how the investment activities of REITs are affected by the age of their CEOs. Tracking the property acquisition activities of 150 REIT CEOs between 1974 and 2017, we find robust evidence of younger CEOs engaging more frequently and spending more monies on property acquisitions.
Fan Zhang, Joseph T. L. Ooi
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Hiring retirement‐age CEOs

European Financial Management, 2020
AbstractMore than 10% of the S&P 1500 companies have hired a CEO who starts the job near or above the conventional retirement age of 65 years old. This phenomenon exists among all industries and persists over time. Firms are more likely to hire retiring CEOs when the CEO job risk is high and when the firm is in distress. Retiring CEOs receive lower
Ye Wang, Sirui Yin
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Working capital management and CEO age

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021
Abstract The existing literature provides strong evidence that working capital management affects a firm’s performance and value. In this paper, we examine how CEO age affects firms’ working capital decisions. Using a sample of 28,243 firm-year observations of U.S. firms from 1993 to 2018, we find that net operating working capital increases with CEO
Robert B. Burney, Hui Liang James, Hongxia Wang   +2 more
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