Local CEOs, career concerns and voluntary disclosure
研究了本地CEO(在公司总部所在州长大)与非本地CEO在管理层业绩指引上的差异,发现本地CEO提供的指引项目更少、频率更低,且更倾向于隐瞒坏消息,但在家乡州经济衰退时会增加披露。
Abstract I study whether the management guidance provided by local chief executive officers (CEOs) differs from the guidance provided by nonlocal CEOs. The geographic preferences of the CEOs lead to segmented executive labor markets, which impose higher relocation costs and give rise to lower job mobility. I find that local CEOs, who grew up in the same states where the firm headquarters are located, provide fewer items in guidance and less frequent guidance than nonlocal CEOs. I also show that local CEOs have greater asymmetric withholding of bad news relative to good news and that they increase their disclosure during economic downturns in their home states. Collectively, these findings suggest that the geographically segmented CEO labor markets play an important role in the disclosure choices of CEOs.