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Founder-Ceos, Investment Decisions, and Stock Market PerformanceRüdiger FahlenbrachEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Swiss Finance Institute August 8, 2007 Dice Center Working Paper No. 2004-20 Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2004-01-001 Abstract: Eleven percent of the largest public U.S. firms are headed by the CEO who founded the firm. Founder-CEO firms differ systematically from successor-CEO firms with respect to firm valuation, investment behavior, and stock market performance. Founder-CEO firms invest more in R&D, have higher capital expenditures, and make more focused mergers and acquisitions. An equal-weighted investment strategy that had invested in founder-CEO firms from 1993{2002 would have earned a benchmark- adjusted return of 8.3% annually. The excess return is robust; after controlling for a wide variety of firm characteristics, CEO characteristics, and industry affiliation, the abnormal return is still 4.4% annually. The implications of the investment behavior and stock market performance of founder-CEO led firms are discussed.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 51 Keywords: Founder-CEOs, managerial characteristics, corporate behavior JEL Classification: G32, G34 working papers seriesDate posted: October 19, 2004 ; Last revised: August 7, 2008Suggested CitationContact Information
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