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Where Are the Shareholders’ Mansions? CEOs’ Home Purchases, Stock Sales, and Subsequent Company Performance

In: Corporate Governance

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  • Crocker Liu

    (Cornell University)

  • David Yermack

    (New York University)

Abstract

We study real estate purchases by major company CEOs, compiling a database of the principal residences of nearly every top executive in the Standard and Poor’s 500 index. When a CEO buys real estate, future company performance is inversely related to the CEO’s liquidation of company shares and options for financing the transaction. We also find that, regardless of the source of finance, future company performance deteriorates when CEOs acquire extremely large or costly mansions and estates. We therefore interpret large home acquisitions as signals of CEO entrenchment. Our research also provides useful insights for calibrating utility based models of executive compensation and for understanding patterns of Veblenian conspicuous consumption.

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  • Crocker Liu & David Yermack, 2012. "Where Are the Shareholders’ Mansions? CEOs’ Home Purchases, Stock Sales, and Subsequent Company Performance," Springer Books, in: Sabri Boubaker & Bang Dang Nguyen & Duc Khuong Nguyen (ed.), Corporate Governance, edition 127, pages 3-28, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-31579-4_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31579-4_1
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    1. Victor Esteban Jarosiewicz & David Gaddis Ross, 2023. "Revisiting managerial “style”: The replicability and falsifiability of manager fixed effects for firm policies," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(3), pages 858-886, March.

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