The Impact of Overconfident Customers on Supplier Firm Risks
Yiwei Fang, Iftekhar Hasan, Chih-Yung Lin, Jiong Sun
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
May
2022
Abstract
Research has shown that firms with overconfident chief executive officers (CEOs) tend to overinvest and are exposed to high risks due to unrealistically optimistic estimates of their firms’ future performance. This study finds evidence that overconfident CEOs also affect suppliers’ risk taking. Specifically, serving overconfident customers can lead to high supplier risks, measured by stock volatility, idiosyncratic risk, and market risk. The effects are pronounced when customers aggressively invest in research and development (R&D). Our results are robust after addressing self-selection bias and using different CEO overconfidence measures. We also document some real effects of customer CEO overconfidence on suppliers.
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Managerial Biases and Debt Contract Design: The Case of Syndicated Loans
Tim R. Adam, Valentin Burg, Tobias Scheinert, Daniel Streitz
Management Science,
Nr. 1,
2020
Abstract
We examine whether managerial overconfidence impacts the use of performance-pricing provisions in loan contracts (performance-sensitive debt [PSD]). Managers with biased views may issue PSD because they consider this form of debt to be mispriced. Our evidence shows that overconfident managers are more likely to issue rate-increasing PSD than regular debt. They choose PSD with steeper performance-pricing schedules than those chosen by rational managers. We reject the possibility that overconfident managers have (persistent) positive private information and use PSD for signaling. Finally, firms seem to benefit less from using PSD ex post if they are managed by overconfident rather than rational managers.
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Editorial
Ulrich Blum
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
Nr. 3,
2011
Abstract
Angesichts der Bedrohung durch das Kraftwerk Fukushima verurteilen viele die Hybris derer, die meinen, Großtechnologien wie die Kernkraft beherrschen zu können. Liegt nicht aber die frevelhafte Selbstüberschätzung ganz woanders: darin, ein Leben ohne Risiko führen zu wollen? Der Volksmund weiß, dass Leben nun einmal lebensgefährlich ist. Sorge muss uns bereiten, dass mit zunehmender „Systemik“ die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Schadens nicht so schnell sinkt, wie die Kosten bei Schadenseintritt steigen; beides multipliziert ergibt den Erwartungswert. Die Kosten von (Natur-)Katastrophen steigen auch, weil mehr Menschen heute an gefährdeten Standorten siedeln. Zusätzlich steigen, fortschrittsbedingt, die Vermögenswerte, was direkt in die Schadenskosten einfließt.
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