Exploiting interstate branching deregulations as exogenous shocks to banking market competition, we examine the impact of increased market competition on shareholder voting in the U.S. banking industry. Voting is one of the primary mechanisms through which shareholders participate in corporate...

We present a novel approach for measuring executive personality traits. Relying on recent developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence, we utilize the IBM Watson Personality Insights service to measure executive personalities based on CEOs' and CFOs' responses to questions raised...

Utilizing a large sample of US chief financial officers (CFOs), we show that both personality and gender of CFOs are significant determinants of their remuneration. Controlling for ‘Big Five’ personality traits does not eliminate the differential in compensation between male and female CFOs