Chief executive officers (CEOs) could use tax avoidance to reduce costs and hence increase firm profits. Nevertheless, the reputation of the firm could be harmed. Prior studies find that firms’ tax avoidance is associated with CEOs’ personality traits. We attempt to predict firms’...

By using a pilot license as a proxy for the sensation-seeking personality trait, we examine the relation between sensation-seeking CEOs and trade credit. With a sample of pilot CEOs and non-pilot CEOs from U.S. listed firms from 1993-2016, we find strong evidence that firms led by pilot CEOs are...

Agency theory indicates that a moral hazard occurs when an agent (manager) with superior information has an incentive to behave inappropriately from the perspective of the principal (investor) with inferior information. Because of the superior information that top executives have, they will...