Managerial ability, investment efficiency and stock price crash risk

We examine empirically the effect of managerial ability on firm-level investment efficiency and how this affects future stock price crash risk. Using a managerial ability measure developed by Demerjian et al. (2012), the paper documents consistent evidence that the more able managers over-invest com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Habib, A., Hasan, Mostafa
Format: Journal Article
Published: J A I Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56838