Me, myself and I : CEO narcissism and selective hedging
(2022) In European Financial Management 28(3). p.809-833- Abstract
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that CEO narcissism influences firms’ hedging behaviour. Our empirical evidence, based on hand-collected data on derivative positions in the U.S. oil and gas industry, suggests that firms with a narcissistic CEO hedge more selectively. Furthermore, we find that these firms reduce selective hedging comparatively more following a sharp price collapse that sent the industry into a state of distress. This result is in line with the ‘narcissistic paradox’: While scoring high on self-esteem and grandiosity in the normal case, such individuals are also inherently fragile and liable to crumble when faced with adversity.
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- author
- Bajo, Emanuele ; Jankensgård, Håkan LU and Marinelli, Nicoletta
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- derivatives, narcissism, risk management, selective hedging
- in
- European Financial Management
- volume
- 28
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 809 - 833
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85109357823
- ISSN
- 1354-7798
- DOI
- 10.1111/eufm.12328
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 26f2a41a-763f-40cb-b4e2-007df8863105
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- 2021-08-23 12:09:40
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