Published on: 2025-06-13 00:01:44
90 Pages Posted: 27 May 2025 Date Written: May 01, 2025 Abstract We examine how selection bias in CEO promotion amplifies risk-taking, using prenatal exposure to pollution as an exogenous shock to individual risk preferences. CEOs born in future Superfund sites are more likely to be promoted internally, suggesting firms reward observed success without recognizing underlying risk tolerance. These "Superfund CEOs" excel in internal roles but pursue riskier external policies once promoted-leadin
Keywords: ceos firms promotion risk superfund
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