Investors’ perception of CEO overconfidence: evidence from the cost of equity capital

被引：21
作者：
Aghazadeh S. [1 ]
Sun L. [2 ]
Wang Q. [3 ]
Yang R. [4 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Accounting, E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 70803-6304, LA
[2] Department of Accounting, College of Business, University of North Texas, Denton, 76201, TX
[3] Department of Accounting, College of Business, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011, IA
[4] E. Philip Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, 105 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, 14623, NY
来源：
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 2018年 / 51卷 / 4期
关键词：
CEO overconfidence; Cost of equity capital; Equity issuance;
D O I：
10.1007/s11156-017-0699-9
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摘要：
Prior literature documents that CEO overconfidence plays an important role in corporate financial reporting and accounting decisions. However, an unexplored issue is how investors perceive the risks associated with CEO overconfidence. This study examines the effect of CEO overconfidence on the cost of equity capital. We find that the association between CEO overconfidence and the cost of equity is nonlinear: a moderate level of CEO overconfidence results in the lowest cost of equity capital after controlling for other known determinants of the cost of equity. We also find an inverted nonlinear relation between CEO overconfidence and equity issuance, which corroborates our main conclusion of the nonlinear effect of CEO overconfidence on the cost of equity. Our results are robust to alternative overconfidence measures, cost of equity measures, and change analysis. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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页码：1129 / 1150
页数：21
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