What Doesn't Kill You Will Only Make You More Risk-Loving: Early-Life Disasters and CEO Behavior

By Gennaro Bernile, Vineet Bhagwat, P. R. Rau, Yosef Bonaparte, D. Cremer, Henrik Cronqvist, Peter Cziraski, Larry Y. Dann, David Feldman, Ben Hardy and 9 more. 2017

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The Sustainability Footprint of Institutional Investors (2018, neutral): “Bernile, Bhagwat, and Rau (2017) and Bernile et al. (2017) examine how managers and fund-managers are affected by disasters.”
Doing Good Business by Hiring Directors with Foreign Experience (2016, background): “Many studies in finance and human resource management suggest that the past experiences of directors/ CEOs significantly influence firms’ decision making (PérezGonzález 2006; Bennedsen et al. 2007; Kaplan et al. 2012; Benmelech and Frydman 2015; Bernile et al. 2016).”
Terrorist attacks and investor risk preference: Evidence from mutual fund flows (2020, neutral): “Bernile et al. (2017) show that CEOs who in early life likely experienced natural disasters resulting in high or extreme fatalities tend to lead their firms more aggressively than do CEOs who likely experienced natural disasters resulting in low to moderate fatalities.”