In recent years, an increasing number of nationally representative surveys in the social sciences and economics have implemented the Big Five model of personality. While many personality inventories were originally developed in the context of self-administered questionnaires, they are often used...

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that CEO narcissism influences firms' hedging behaviour. Unlike rare but transformative events like acquisitions, derivative usage offers the narcissistic manager a convenient stage for bold and decisive action that generates a continuous supply of...

This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany. Recruiters were asked to choose between job applicants who differed in...