We examine the impact of social capital at the US county level on managerial risk-taking incentives. We hypothesize that corporate executives in counties with higher social capital would accept lower equity-based compensation then faithfully behave in terms of efforts and risks following the...

Exploiting two exogenous shocks, we examine the relation between CEO-Chairman duality and firm performance. We report evidence that CEO duality benefits a firm when economic policy uncertainty is high. This implies that CEO-Chairman duality is an advantageous governance mechanism for coping with...