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title: CEO Social Capital and Report Readability
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4986278/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 4986278
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4986278
featured: 2024-10-17
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# CEO Social Capital and Report Readability

Research indicates that companies with CEOs having high social capital often produce less readable 10K reports, especially if the CEOs are influential, their peers also issue less readable reports, and they operate in competitive sectors.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4986278
- Identifier: SSRN 4986278
- Released: 2021-12-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 70 (2024-10-17): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-10-17/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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