Gu, Yuqi - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-28
I study the relationship between a Chief Executive Officer (CEO)'s uncommon name and corporate innovation. Consistent … between CEO name uncommonness and corporate innovation quantity but not quality. To mitigate endogeneity concerns, I use the … further show that the impact on innovation output is concentrated in the areas that are well-known to the company, of low …