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European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the relationship between Chief Financial Officer (CFO) overconfidence and firm performance through the lens of environmental violations and constituency statutes. Drawing on stakeholder and upper echelons theories, we find that firms with overconfident CFOs are more likely to commit environmental violations, which ...
Panagiotis Andrikopoulos +4 more
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Does an optimistic tone in annual reports predict better financial and non‐financial performance?
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract In the current paper, we investigate whether management adopts an optimistic disclosure tone to impress the corporate audience or to provide incremental information (II) by anticipating positive corporate performance. Specifically, we test whether an optimistic tone in annual reports (ARs) is a positive predictor of better financial and non ...
Francesco Gangi +3 more
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The illusion of competence: Managers and the Dunning–Kruger effect
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Do managers properly recognize their own expertise? This study explores distortions in self‐perception by investigating the presence of the Dunning–Kruger effect, a cognitive bias that distorts self‐assessment, within managerial contexts. Although widely studied in psychology, its implications for management remain underexplored.
Francesca Sanguineti +3 more
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Rich Dad Poor Dad? CEO Private School Background and Firm Risk
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the effect of CEO childhood socioeconomic status (SES) on firm risk. Using hand‐collected data on US CEOs' private high‐school attendance as proxy for high‐SES, we find that firms led by high‐SES CEOs exhibit 5.35% lower firm risk. This effect diminishes with CEO tenure, analyst coverage, and institutional ownership, consistent with
Yifei Bi, Christos Mavrovitis, Chen Yang
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From Regression to Reasoning: Predicting M&A Announcement Returns With Large Language Models
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can predict short‐term market reactions to M&A announcements. We prompt OpenAI's latest reasoning models (o3, GPT‐5, and GPT‐5.1) to forecast whether the combined market value of acquirer and target will increase or decrease, drawing on deal‐, firm‐, and macroeconomic data for large ...
Maximilian Schreiter +2 more
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CEO EMOTIONAL BIAS AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE CHOICE. BAYESIAN NETWORK METHOD [PDF]
Business Excellence and Management, 2012 This research examines the determinants of firms’ capital structure introducing a behavioral perspective that has received little attention in corporate finance literature.
Mohamed Ali AZOUZI , Anis JARBOUI
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Board Independence and Adjustment Speed of CEO Inside Debt
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We find that firms with more independent directors adjust CEO inside debt towards an optimum more quickly. This effect is more pronounced in financially unconstrained, growth, and under‐levered firms, and also firms led by more powerful or overconfident CEOs.
Bonnie Buchanan, Shuhui Wang, Tina Yang
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Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is one of the most polarizing issues in business and society. Advocates claim that DEI enhances fairness, while critics argue it undermines meritocracy. The problems often stem from the practice of DEI—reducing it to demographic diversity—rather than its principle.
Alex Edmans
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CEO Narcissism and Related Party Transactions
Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the association between CEO narcissism and the likelihood of engaging in related party transactions (RPTs) and its influence on the value implications of these transactions. Furthermore, we investigate the effect of board monitoring on the relationship between CEO narcissism and the value effects of RPTs. We find that CEO narcissism
Anwer S. Ahmed +3 more
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CEO social media activity and insider trading
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article studies the relationship between CEOs' social media activity and their insider trading behavior. Drawing on psychological evidence linking online activity to risk‐taking, we find that active CEOs on social media exhibit higher risk preferences and engage more in insider trading—particularly in terms of incidence, intensity, and ...
Zhichuan Li +2 more
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