We study how overconfident CEOs communicate with the market and whether this has implications on the firm's information environment. Textual analysis reveals that overconfident CEOs communicate using less negative tone in their 10K/Q filings. Our evidence suggests that overconfident CEOs provide...

In this paper, we investigate whether directors' dealings reports are informative for outside investors. We analyze short-term announcement effects for eight European countries, namely Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the U.K, between 01/2003 and 12/2009. We...

This article analyzes intraday stock price and trading volume reactions to directors' dealings announcements in Germany and the United Kingdom from January 2007 to June 2010. The main findings show that prompt public disclosure of directors' dealings, as mandated by the EU Transparency...

Research summary. This study analyzes whether and how the disruption of top management turnovers can affect not only turnover firms but also their intra-industry rivals. It thus adds to the literature on both leader life cycles and competitive dynamics. Using a U.S. sample of 857 CEO turnovers,...