Managerial Attitudes and Corporate Actions

By John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey, Manju Puri. 2013

1,148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Finance, General Decision Sciences

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In Accounting

1. Jeong‐Bon Kim
2. Liandong Zhang
3. W. Guay
4. John R. Graham
5. John E. Core
6. Kelly Shue
7. Nemit Shroff
8. Zheng Wang

In Finance

1. Jeong‐Bon Kim
2. Liandong Zhang
3. Kelly Shue
4. Zheng Wang
5. John R. Graham
6. John E. Core
7. M. Conyon
8. Campbell R. Harvey

In General Decision Sciences

1. Kelly Shue
2. C. Mallin
3. H. Farag
4. M. Humphery‐Jenner
5. Suman Banerjee
6. Vikram K. Nanda
7. Liandong Zhang
8. John E. Core

Citations in the corpus

• Board diversity and financial fragility: Evidence from European banks (2017, background): “Furthermore, female CEOs might be seen as more risk averse compared with their male counterparts as they may rely on less leverage (Graham et al., 2013), less long-term debt, and their companies have less earning volatility, higher survival rate (Faccio et al., 2016) and less involved in…”
• The influence of individual executives on corporate financial reporting: A review and outlook from the perspective of upper echelons theory (2016, background): “In addition, the majority of studies closely follow well-tested research designs from empirical upper echelons studies in other domains (e.g., Bamber, Jiang, & Wang, 2010; Graham, Harvey, & Puri, 2013; Patel & Cooper, 2014).”
• Financial Expert CEOs: CEO’s Work Experience and Firm’s Financial Policies (2014, neutral): “Malmendier and Tate (2005) study education, Kaplan, Klebanov, and Sorensen (2012) personal characteristics, and Malmendier and Tate (2005, 2008), Graham, Harvey, and Puri (2013), Hirshleifer, Low, and Teoh (2012), Malmendier, Tate, and Yan (2011), and Lin, Ma, Officer, and Zou (2011) analyze…”
• Effects of culture on firm risk-taking: a cross-country and cross-industry analysis (2012, neutral): “Two decades later, Graham et al. (2010), using survey data in the USA, also show that CEOs are not immune to the effects of culture.”
• CEO Optimism and Incentive Compensation (2014, background): “In the empirical literature, Graham, Harvey, and Puri (2013) is the most closely related work.”
• The Bright Side of Managerial Over-Optimism (2016, background): “For example, Graham et al. (2013) find that 80% of CEOs in their survey display a "very optimistic" personality.”
• The Deliberate Engagement of Narcissistic CEOs in Earnings Management (2020, background): “More specifically, CEOs have been found to have the power to force CFOs and accountants to inflate reported earnings to meet or exceed targets (Davis et al. 2006; Feng et al. 2011; Graham et al. 2013).”
• The influence of CEO demographic characteristics on corporate risk-taking: evidence from Chinese IPOs (2016, methodology): “Equally, Graham, Harvey, and Puri (2013) find that younger CEOs are risk-tolerant and usually run fast growth companies.”