Du, Yao; Hasan, Iftekhar; Lin, Chih-Yung; Lu, Chien-Lin - 2022
neuroticism) on their annual compensation. We hand-collect the S&P 1500 CEO tweets and use IBM personality insights to measure CEO … personality. CEOs with high ratings of agreeableness and conscientiousness tend to have more compensation. We further find these … firms outperform their peers. Overall, CEO personality is a valid predictor of CEO compensation. Firms are willing to pay …