Pilot CEOs and trade credit
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: By using a pilot license as a proxy for the sensation-seeking personality trait, we examine the relation between sensation-seeking CEOs and trade credit. With a sample of pilot CEOs and non-pilot CEOs from U.S. listed firms from 1993–2016, we find strong evidence that firms led by pilot CEOs are more likely to use trade credit than those led by non-pilot CEOs. The positive relation between pilot CEOs and trade credit is more pronounced for firms with high investment growth opportunities. The results are consistent with our conjecture that firms with pilot CEOs tend to have a higher level of trade credit, especially when they need capital to finance long-term investment activities to satisfy the CEOs’ desire for sensation. Our findings establish a link between a CEO personality trait and trade credit and suggest that this CEO personality trait might be a relevant factor in determining purchaser firms’ use of trade credit.
Source: European Journal of Finance
Authors: Hongkang Xu, Duong Nguyen, Mai Dao
Institutions: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Toledo
Language: English
Subfield: Accounting
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3084142248