East, West, Home's Best: Do Local CEOs Behave Less Myopically?
Abstract
We test whether CEOs working near their childhood homes are less likely than nonlocal CEOs to make myopic decisions. Place attachment theories suggest that people develop mutual caretaking relationships with their birthplaces. Also, executive labor markets face less information asymmetry about local CEOs, resulting in lower pressure on local CEOs for quick profits. Consistent with the prediction, we find that local CEOs are less likely to cut...
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Title
East, West, Home's Best: Do Local CEOs Behave Less Myopically?
Published Date
Sep 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
95
Issue
2
Pages
227 - 255
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