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title: CEO Narcissism and Capital Structure
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/eme-rbfpps-rbf-04-2023-0087/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: RePEc:eme:rbfpps:rbf-04-2023-0087
source_url: https://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/redir.pf?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emerald.com%2Finsight%2Fcontent%2Fdoi%2F10.1108%2FRBF-04-2023-0087%2Ffull%2Fhtml%3Futm_source%3Drepec%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3Drepec%3Bh%3Drepec%3Aeme%3Arbfpps%3Arbf-04-2023-0087
featured: 2024-07-24
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# CEO Narcissism and Capital Structure

The study uses machine learning and text analysis to study the effect of CEO optimism and narcissism on a company's capital structure, finding a slight, nonlinear impact of narcissism and no sex-dependence for median values of optimism and narcissism.

- Source: https://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/redir.pf?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emerald.com%2Finsight%2Fcontent%2Fdoi%2F10.1108%2FRBF-04-2023-0087%2Ffull%2Fhtml%3Futm_source%3Drepec%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3Drepec%3Bh%3Drepec%3Aeme%3Arbfpps%3Arbf-04-2023-0087
- Identifier: RePEc:eme:rbfpps:rbf-04-2023-0087
- Released: 2024-07-24
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 58 (2024-07-24): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-07-24/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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