CEO Overconfidence and International Merger and Acquisition Activity

By Stephen P. Ferris, Narayanan Jayaraman, Sanjiv Sabherwal. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2013

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CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Debt Maturity (2016, unknown): “However, we do not find strong evidence that firms choose shorter debt maturity structure to signal the market (Flannery (1986)) or to alleviate the underinvestment problem (Myers (1977)).”
The effects of national culture and behavioral pitfalls on investors' decision-making: Herding behavior in international stock markets ☆ (2015, background): “Ferris, Jayaraman, and Sabherwal (2013) report that individualism and long-term orientation increases and decreases the CEO's overconfidence tendency, respectively.”
CEO Overconfidence and Stock Price Crash Risk (2016, unknown): “…2010; Malmendier and Tate 2005), higher investment in innovation (Galasso and Simcoe 2011; Hirshleifer et al. 2012), more value-destroying mergers (Ferris et al. 2012; Malmendier and Tate 2008; Roll 1986), more optimistic earnings forecasts (Hilary and Hsu 2011; Hribar and Yang 2014), a higher…”
The impact of cultural diversity in corporate boards on firm performance (2016, unknown): “, 2010), merger and acquisition decisions (Ahern et al., 2012; Ferris et al., 2013; Frijns et al., 2013), cross-listing decisions (Dodd et al.”