This study examines the relationship between corporate managers' political ideology and corporate leverage policies … Republican managers significantly reduce leverage during periods of high investor sentiment. To the best of the authors …' knowledge, this paper is the first to document that Republican managers are not swayed by the general tendency to increase …

role of leverage in mediating the influence of male CEO masculinity on research and development. This study uses a … leverage has an impact on increasing and decreasing the masculinity value of male CEOs as well as increasing and decreasing the … CEOs has an impact on increasing leverage and research and development costs, conversely the lower face value of …