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“I Do”: Does Marital Status Affect How Much CEOs “Do”?

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  • Gina Nicolosi
  • Adam S. Yore

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This paper explores whether a CEO's marital status reveals unobservable risk preferences which influence their firm's investment and compensation policies. Using biographical data for CEOs of large domestic companies, we find that corporate deal-making activity (e.g., mergers, joint ventures, major capital expenditures, etc.) and overall firm riskiness both increase significantly with personal life restructuring (e.g., marriages and divorces). This relation is supported by an instrumental variables analysis and also an investigation surrounding CEO turnover. Finally, the link between a CEO's marital status and preference for option-based compensation further suggests that personal restructuring may be an indicator of executive risk appetites.

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  • Gina Nicolosi & Adam S. Yore, 2015. "“I Do”: Does Marital Status Affect How Much CEOs “Do”?," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 50(1), pages 57-88, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:finrev:v:50:y:2015:i:1:p:57-88
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    1. Dev R. Mishra, 2021. "Charitable inclination and the chief executive officer's pay package," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 56(1), pages 85-108, February.
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    3. Kim, Jeong-Bon & Liao, Shushu & Liu, Yangke, 2021. "Married CEOs and Stock Price Crash Risk," QBS Working Paper Series 2021/09, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School.
    4. Christopher S. Reina & Suzanne J. Peterson & Zhen Zhang, 2017. "Adverse Effects of CEO Family-to-Work Conflict on Firm Performance," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 28(2), pages 228-243, April.
    5. Ming-Hua Liu & Shaohua Tian & Yang Zhang, 2023. "CEO marital status and corporate tax planning behavior," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 61(4), pages 1207-1242, November.
    6. Neyland, Jordan, 2020. "Love or money: The effect of CEO divorce on firm risk and compensation," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 60(C).
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    10. Ciji Song & Yi Yang & Zengji Song, 2024. "The impact of entrepreneurs’ wives participating in corporate management on company risk-taking," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-10, December.

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