Colak, Gönül and Korkeamäki, Timo (2021) CEO mobility and corporate policy risk. Journal of Corporate Finance, 69. a102037 1-28. ISSN 0929-1199

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Abstract

Career concerns can limit a manager's willingness to take risks, which can lead to excessive policy conservatism. An increase in a CEO's ability and willingness to change jobs (CEO mobility) can diversify her human capital and reduce her conservatism. We derive several CEO mobility measures and relate them to a policy riskiness index that captures the overall risk embedded in a firm's corporate policies. We find a strong positive relation between CEO mobility and the riskiness of corporate policies. We also link external regulatory shocks that constrain labor mobility to significant drops in corporate risk-taking.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	University of Sussex Business School > Accounting and Finance
SWORD Depositor:	Mx Elements Account
Depositing User:	Mx Elements Account
Date Deposited:	22 Feb 2022 08:47
Last Modified:	23 Feb 2022 08:13
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/104487

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