Behavioral Consistency in Corporate Finance: CEO Personal and Corporate Leverage

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CEO network centrality and merger performance (2015, background): “Third, we contribute to the growing literature in behavioral corporate finance on how the personal traits of corporate decision-makers affect the firm's financial outcomes (e.g., Baker et al., 2007; Cronqvist et al., 2012).”
CEO Gender, Corporate Risk-Taking, and the Efficiency of Capital Allocation (2016, background): “Those studies include Bertrand and Schoar (2003), Malmendier and Tate (2005, 2008), Malmendier et al. (2011), Benmelech and Frydman (2015), Cronqvist et al. (2012), and Cain and McKeon (2016).”
Opportunism as a Firm and Managerial Trait: Predicting Insider Trading Profits and Misconduct (2017, result): “Cronqvist et al. (2012) find that corporate leverage is positively correlated with the CEO’s personal leverage.”
Board of Directors’ Composition and Capital Structure (2014, unknown): “Following previous capital structure empirical literature (e.g. Alves and Ferreira, 2011; Cronqvist et al., 2012), we focus on the quasi”