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Looking in the Rearview Mirror: The Effect of Managers' Professional Experience on Corporate Financial Policy

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  • Amy Dittmar
  • Ran Duchin

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We track the employment history of over 9,000 managers to study the effects of professional experiences on corporate policies. Our identification strategy exploits exogenous CEO turnovers and employment in other firms and in non-CEO roles. Firms run by CEOs who experienced distress have less debt, save more cash, and invest less than other firms, with stronger effects in poorly governed firms. Experience has a stronger influence when it is more recent or occurs during salient periods in a manager's career. We find similar effects for CFOs. The results suggest that policies vary with managers' experiences and throughout managers' careers. Received January 28, 2014; accepted May 17, 2015 by Editor David Denis.

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  • Amy Dittmar & Ran Duchin, 2016. "Looking in the Rearview Mirror: The Effect of Managers' Professional Experience on Corporate Financial Policy," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 29(3), pages 565-602.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:29:y:2016:i:3:p:565-602.
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