Firm Performance in the Face of Fear

We use facial emotion recognition software to quantify CEO mood. Anger or disgust motivates a CEO to work harder to improve his/her situation thus firm profitability improves in the subsequent quarter. Happy CEOs are less likely to work on hard or unpleasant tasks thus profitability decreases in the subsequent quarter. In the short term, 'Fear' explains the firm's announcement period market performance. However fear is transient and performance improvement is short term

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Akansu, Ali
Other Persons:	Cicon, Jim (contributor) ; Ferris, Steven (contributor) ; Sun, Yanjia (contributor)
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Description of contents:	Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] ; Abstract [doi.org]

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 3, 2014 erstellt Volltext nicht verfügbar
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2533615 [DOI]
Classification:	F3 - International Finance ; G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance ; D2 - Production and Organizations ; D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making ; K4 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior ; L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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