This paper investigates the effect of superstar CEOs on their competitors. Exploiting shocks to CEO status due to …

relationship between chairman and CEO compensation. Using a sample of publicly listed firms in Sweden, the study indicates that … chairman compensation – despite its fixed nature – is reflective of firm performance via a positive relationship to CEO … compensation. As CEO compensation is set before chairman compensation, we argue that the chairman may be inclined to conspire with …

Using hand-collected data on chief executive officer (CEO) non-compete agreements (NCAs), we find that NCAs are less …

While poor firm performance has been shown to be an important predictor of CEO dismissal, financial performance alone … cannot explain the increased incidence of CEO dismissal. The complex and ambiguous relationship between poor firm performance … and CEO dismissal is due in part to the uncertainty that surrounds the board's evaluation of the firm's CEO. In this study …

increases the correlation across projects by exposing them to the shock of the same CEO. We show that, in contrast to the …

Using hand-collected data on CEO non-compete agreements (NCAs), we find that CEOs are less likely to have NCAs when …

’ age, tenure, gender, duality (i.e., holding concurrent chairman and CEO roles), educational background, and career horizon …, and find that age increases risk-taking. However, when the CEO’s age reaches a given point, their concern about reputation … and retirement results in a negative relationship. We also find that as CEO tenure increases, corporate risk begins to …