Objective or biased? CEO overconfidence and journalists' coverage

Author:

Gong Rong1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Shanghai China

Abstract

AbstractThis study explores whether journalists report more positively or negatively on acquisitions by chief executive officers (CEOs) with greater overconfidence than those with less overconfident CEOs. The results show that journalists report acquisition events conducted by firms with overconfident CEOs more negatively than those without. Meanwhile, journalists' negativity in reporting acquisitions by overconfident CEOs is mitigated during periods of high market uncertainty. This result suggests that journalists are not biased upward because of the positive prospects presented by overconfident CEOs but instead act as information intermediaries to inform readers about the overoptimistic view of overconfident CEOs.

Publisher

Wiley

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