This study examines whether CEO overconfidence affects banks' mortgage lending decisions in the post-financial crisis period. Despite the improvements in bank regulations and intensified monitoring following the financial crisis of 2007-2009, we find that banks managed by overconfident CEOs are...

This paper examines the determinants and the effects of CEO stock ownership guideline adoption, differentiating Not-meet/Meet adopters – those setting the guideline above/below the CEO's stock ownership at the time of adoption. While Meet adoption is mainly determined by factors related to...