Download This PaperPowerful CEOs and Stock Price Crash Risk
70 Pages Posted: 20 Jun 2016 Last revised: 10 Jan 2019
Date Written: January 9, 2019
Abstract
We find that chief executive officer (CEO) power increases crash risk. Our results hold addressing for endogeneity concern by instrumental regression analysis; difference-in-difference analysis using exogenous CEO turnover events; firm fixed effects; and propensity score matching approach. Firms with powerful CEOs have higher probability of financial restatement; lower proportion of negative to positive earnings guidance or negative to positive words in their financial statements. Powerful CEOs increase crash risk when their personal wealth is more sensitive to stock prices, and when they possess lower general skills. External monitoring mechanisms weaken but do not eliminate the effect of powerful founder CEOs.
Keywords: CEO power, CEO option delta, CEO overconfidence, CEO general skills, stock price crash risk, corporate governance.
JEL Classification: G12, G32, G34
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Financial Research Network (FIRN)
C/- University of Queensland Business School
St Lucia, 4071 Brisbane
Queensland
Australia
HOME PAGE: http://www.firn.org.au
Financial Research Network (FIRN)
C/- University of Queensland Business School
St Lucia, 4071 Brisbane
Queensland
Australia
HOME PAGE: http://www.firn.org.au
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