En el presente trabajo estudiamos la influencia sobre la performance de las empresas cotizadas españolas entre 2007 y 2009 del número de consejos de administración a que pertenecen sus consejeros independientes. Nuestros resultados ponen de manifiesto una relación no lineal como consecuencia...

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of CEOs' overconfidence on corporate R&D. We analyze a sample of 766 firms from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands between 2008 and 2013. We use three measures of managerial overconfidence: the press coverage of...

We show the effect of CEOs' characteristics on corporate risk-taking of a hand-collected sample of 369 Latin American listed firms from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru for the period 2005-2020. We study six traits: CEOs’ age, tenure, gender, duality (i.e., holding...