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Urquhart, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-4243 and Zhang, H. (2022) PhD CEOs and firm performance. European Financial Management, 28 (2). pp. 433-481. ISSN 1354-7798 doi: 10.1111/eufm.12316

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This paper investigates the relationship between the education of a CEO and firm performance and provides robust evidence that firms led by CEOs with PhDs outperform their peers. We find that CEOs with PhDs increase firm performance by 3.03% while CEOs with a PhD from a highly ranked university increase firm performance by 4.65%. Our results are robust to endogenous CEO selection, transition firms, alternative rankings, unobserved firm characteristics and the network of the CEO. We also show that the increase in firm performance is due to a tighter control of costs and superior cash flow management.

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Item Type Article
URI https://reading-pure-test.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/97044
Identification Number/DOI 10.1111/eufm.12316
Refereed Yes
Divisions Central Services
Henley Business School > Finance and Accounting
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