CEO–CFO team optimism: Commercial real estate transactions and REIT performance

The managerial optimism literature concentrates on CEOs neglecting other executive team members. We evaluate the interplay of the optimism levels of the CEOs and CFOs of real estate investment trusts, and study their commercial real estate transactions. We find that firms led by optimistic CEO/CFO t...

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Published in:Real estate economics 2023-01, Vol.51 (1), p.103-129
Main Authors: Eichholtz, Piet, Yönder, Erkan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
commercial real estate
counterbalance
executive team
optimism
Real estate
REITs
Teams
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Summary:The managerial optimism literature concentrates on CEOs neglecting other executive team members. We evaluate the interplay of the optimism levels of the CEOs and CFOs of real estate investment trusts, and study their commercial real estate transactions. We find that firms led by optimistic CEO/CFO teams pay 3% more than their peers for their asset acquisitions if cash ratio increases by one percentage point. Our findings also exhibit inferior stock performance by optimistic teams following a transaction. Conversely, diversity in terms of CEO/CFO optimism prevents firms from overpaying, serving as a soft governance mechanism with salience to firm performance.
ISSN:1080-8620
1540-6229
DOI:10.1111/1540-6229.12387