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Generalist CEOs and Credit Ratings*
Contemporary Accounting Research ( IF 3.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 , DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12662
Zhiming Ma 1 , Lufei Ruan 2 , Danye Wang 3 , Haiyan Zhang 4
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A recent trend is that firms prefer to hire generalist CEOs with transferable skills (across firms or industries) over hiring specialist CEOs, but the consequences of this trend are unclear. In this study, we examine whether credit rating agencies consider a CEO's general skills as a credit risk factor when assessing an entity's overall creditworthiness. We predict and find that generalist CEOs are associated with lower credit ratings, suggesting that the presence of generalist CEOs is a significant credit rating factor. We also find that generalist CEOs are likely to take on more risks, which leads to more volatile performance ex post, and our path analyses confirm default risk is a significant mediator between credit ratings and CEOs' general skills. Our results hold in the presence of additional controls (e.g., CEO characteristics and corporate governance), when applying different fixed-effect models and different matching methods, and for a subsample with forced CEO turnover. We also find that the negative relationship is attenuated for R&D-intensive firms and firms in competitive industries. Last, we provide evidence that firms with generalist CEOs face higher borrowing costs, such as bond yields and syndicated loan spreads. Overall, our results contribute to a growing literature on the costs and benefits of hiring generalist CEOs, by providing a full picture of why hiring a generalist CEO may benefit shareholders but also cause misalignments with bondholders' interests.

中文翻译:

通才 CEO 和信用评级*

最近的一个趋势是,公司更愿意聘用具有可转移技能(跨公司或行业)的通才 CEO,而不是聘用专业 CEO,但这种趋势的后果尚不清楚。在本研究中,我们研究了信用评级机构在评估实体的整体信誉时是否将 CEO 的一般技能视为信用风险因素。我们预测并发现通才 CEO 与较低的信用评级相关,这表明通才 CEO 的存在是一个重要的信用评级因素。我们还发现,通才 CEO 可能承担更多风险,这导致事后业绩波动更大,我们的路径分析证实,违约风险是信用评级和 CEO 综合技能之间的重要中介。我们的结果在存在额外控制的情况下成立(例如,CEO 特征和公司治理),当应用不同的固定效应模型和不同的匹配方法时,以及针对 CEO 被迫更替的子样本。我们还发现,研发密集型企业和竞争性行业企业的负相关关系减弱。最后,我们提供证据表明,拥有通才 CEO 的公司面临更高的借贷成本,例如债券收益率和银团贷款利差。总体而言,我们的结果有助于越来越多的关于聘用通才 CEO 的成本和收益的文献,通过全面说明为什么聘用通才 CEO 可能使股东受益,但也会导致与债券持有人的利益不一致。我们还发现,研发密集型企业和竞争性行业企业的负相关关系减弱。最后,我们提供证据表明,拥有通才 CEO 的公司面临更高的借贷成本,例如债券收益率和银团贷款利差。总体而言,我们的结果有助于越来越多的关于聘用通才 CEO 的成本和收益的文献,通过全面说明为什么聘用通才 CEO 可能使股东受益,但也会导致与债券持有人的利益不一致。我们还发现,研发密集型企业和竞争性行业企业的负相关关系减弱。最后,我们提供证据表明,拥有通才 CEO 的公司面临更高的借贷成本,例如债券收益率和银团贷款利差。总体而言,我们的结果有助于越来越多的关于聘用通才 CEO 的成本和收益的文献,通过全面说明为什么聘用通才 CEO 可能使股东受益,但也会导致与债券持有人的利益不一致。
更新日期:2020-11-23
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