Supun Chandrasena, Sijia Dai, Ranadeva Jayasekera, Tapas Mishra, Gazi Salah Uddin
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Debt mitigates agency problems between managers and stockholders by reducing free cashflows; yet, why managers voluntarily adopt debt discipline remains unclear. This paper examines how chief executive officers' (CEOs') managerial traits, shaped by national culture, influence leverage decisions. Analysing 3338 CEOs from 41 nationalities in 2280 US firms in Bloomberg 3000 index (from 2007 to 2024), we find that cultural values impact CEOs' perceptions of debt's costs/benefits. High-mastery CEOs reduce debt regardless of current leverage, while highly embedded CEOs inadvertently pursue target capital structures. A non-US CEO sample shows that cultural values are portable. Our findings are robust to sensitivity and endogeneity tests.
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European Financial Management publishes the best research from around the world, providing a forum for both academics and practitioners concerned with the financial management of modern corporation and financial institutions. The journal publishes signficant new finance research on timely issues and highlights key trends in Europe in a clear and accessible way, with articles covering international research and practice that have direct or indirect bearing on Europe.
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