Does Fintech affect the psychological traits of managers? Based on the perspective of manager overconfidence. [PDF]
Wang L, Xiao W, Huang D.
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Behavioral Finance in Corporate Governance - Independent Directors, Non-Executive Chairs, and the Importance of the Devil’s Advocate [PDF]
The Common Law, parliamentary democracy, and academia all institutionalize dissent to check undue obedience to authority; and corporate governance reformers advocate the same in boardrooms.
Randall Morck
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Fusionen und Übernahmen im Licht der Hybris - Überblick über den Forschungsstand [PDF]
Zusammenfassung: Eine hohe Anzahl von Fusionen und Übernahmen scheitert. Gleichwohl sind Fusionen und Übernahmen an der Tagesordnung. Als eine Erklärung hierfür wird die Hybris-Hypothese diskutiert, d.h.
Homberg, Fabian, Osterloh, Margit
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CEO overconfidence and cost stickiness
Cost stickiness occurs when costs decrease less when sales fall than they increase when sales rise. Prior literature provides both economic and agency explanations of sticky costs. Our study tackles this cost behaviour from a managerial behavioural perspective.
Qin, B., Mohan, A.W., Kuang, Y.F.
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Bad Corporate Marriages: Waking Up in Bed the Morning After [PDF]
This paper examines corporate risk taking behavior in the wake of unsuccessful merger activities. We find that relative to other firms, firms that made bad acquisitions take both more systematic risk and more idiosyncratic risk.
Cai, Ye, Shefrin, Hersh
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Behavior Towards R&D Investment of Family Firms CEOs: The Role of Psychological Attribute. [PDF]
Zulfiqar M, Zhang R, Khan N, Chen S.
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Chief Executive Officer Proactive Personality and Acquisitions: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of China's Listed Firms. [PDF]
Yang G, Bai X, Yang S.
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CEO cultural background and overinvestment decisions: The north-south divide in China. [PDF]
Tang CH, Lee YH, Huang YL, Chang WT.
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Behavioural Phenomena of Family Firm Control Diversity and R&D Investment with Moderating Role CEO Compensation. [PDF]
Ghafoor S +4 more
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Overconfidence in Currency Markets [PDF]
This paper tests the influential hypothesis, typically attributed to Friedman (1953), that irrational traders will be driven out of financial markets by trading losses. The paper’s main finding is that overconfident currency dealers are not driven out of
Carol Osler, Thomas Oberlechner
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