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 … death of the CEO as a plausible exogenous shock and find results are robust in the difference-in-differences setting. I …