Tailspotting: Identifying and profiting from CEO vacation trips |
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Authors: | David Yermack |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business, 44 West 4th Street, Suite 9-160, New York, NY 10012, USA;2. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper shows connections between chief executive officers? (CEOs?) absences from headquarters and corporate news disclosures. I identify CEO absences by merging records of corporate jet flights and CEOs? property ownership near leisure destinations. CEOs travel to their vacation homes just after companies report favorable news, and CEOs return to headquarters right before subsequent news releases. When CEOs are away, companies announce less news, mandatory disclosures occur later, and stock volatility falls sharply. Volatility increases when CEOs return to work. CEOs spend fewer days out of the office when ownership is high and when weather is bad at their vacation homes. |
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Keywords: | G14 G34 |
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