Does the Market Value CEO Styles?
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Schoar, Antoinette
Zuo, Luo
Date Issued
May 2016
Journal
American Economic Review
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American Economic Association
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Schoar, Antoinette and Zuo, Luo “Does the Market Value CEO Styles?” American Economic Review 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 262–266. © 2016 American Economic Association
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Abstract
We study how investors perceive the skill set that different types of CEOs bring into their companies. We compare CEOs who started their careers during a recession with other CEOs. We show that the announcement return around the appointment of a recession CEO is very significant and positive, and this positive market reaction is driven by cases where a recession CEO replaces a non-recession CEO. Our results indicate that the market assigns a positive and economically meaningful value to a recession CEO, suggesting that there is a limited supply of these types of CEOs in the executive labor market.
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Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20161031
