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Is Chief Executive Officer optimistic belief bad for workers? Evidence from corporate employment decisions (2023)
Journal Article

Using a behavioural approach, we investigate how Chief Executive Officer optimism, defined as a personality trait where a person has optimistic beliefs about the outcome of future events, influences corporate employment decisions. Using data of publi... Read More about Is Chief Executive Officer optimistic belief bad for workers? Evidence from corporate employment decisions.

Is Chief Executive Officer optimistic belief bad for workers? Evidence from corporate employment decisions (2023)
Journal Article

Using a behavioural approach, we investigate how Chief Executive Officer optimism, defined as a personality trait where a person has optimistic beliefs about the outcome of future events, influences corporate employment decisions. Using data of publi... Read More about Is Chief Executive Officer optimistic belief bad for workers? Evidence from corporate employment decisions.

Social capital, environmental justice and carcinogenic waste releases: US county-level evidence, 1998–2019 (2023)
Journal Article

We examine the role of social capital in explaining the highly unequal regional distribution of firms’ carcinogenic releases. Our model predicts that social capital, by enabling information-sharing and coordination among community members, decreases... Read More about Social capital, environmental justice and carcinogenic waste releases: US county-level evidence, 1998–2019.