We investigate whether CEOs' experiences of macroeconomic boom affect risk taking. We use the unique setting of economic conditions changed from Central Planning to Market Economy in China, which is an exogenous shock to early-life experience, as a natural experiment to test the impact on CEOs'...

Prior studies show that momentum is induced because investors underreact to information when anchored by the 52-week high (52WH). We propose that investors’ anchoring bias could vary over time and that the dynamic of the nearness to the 52WH better captures the tendency of investors’...