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Award-winning CEOs as outside directors

@inproceedings{Gogolin2017AwardwinningCA,
  title={Award-winning CEOs as outside directors},
  author={Fabian Gogolin},
  year={2017}
}

Fabian Gogolin

Published 2017

Business

As its core contribution this thesis provides first insights into the role of CEO award winners as outside directors. We use CEO awards to identify a subset of high-profile CEOs and study their roles on external boards. Exploiting this new approach, we first show that investors recognize and value director reputation. Using a large sample of outside director appointments, we find evidence of a reputation premium. Further, the event study results suggest a significant bias in the selection and… CONTINUE READING

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