We provide evidence that CEO equity incentives, especially stock options, influence stock liquidity risk via … disclosure policy. Contributing to the literature on CEO risk-taking, we document a positive association between CEO options and … future systematic stock liquidity risk. Controlling for endogeneity, we show that information disclosure quality is an …

Influenced by their compensation plans, CEOs make their own luck through decisions that affect future firm risk. After … adopting a relative performance evaluation (RPE) plan, total and idiosyncratic risk are higher, and the correlation between …) plans. Plans including accounting-based performance metrics and/or cash payouts have weaker risk-related incentives. The …

effect of risk-taking incentives on both the magnitude and composition of firm risk. We find that when the incentive design … lacks RPE features, the incentive portfolio vega motivates CEOs to increase total risk through the systematic component … because it can be hedged. In contrast, when the incentive design includes RPE features, CEOs prefer idiosyncratic risk because …

, and firm risk. The first essay demonstrates that manager sentiment, a managerial trait proxy for managerial optimism, can … exhibit lower stock price crash risk and the third essay finds that relative performance evaluation increases long …