Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia

This paper examines the firm's leverage decision from new perspectives, namely managerial overconfidence and human governance. The balanced panel sample covers Malaysian public listed companies from 2002 to 2011. The objectives of this study are to investigate the relationship between manageria...

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Main Authors: Ting I.W.K., Azizan N.A.B., Kweh Q.L.
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Published: Inderscience Publishers 2023
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Azizan N.A.B.
Kweh Q.L.
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description This paper examines the firm's leverage decision from new perspectives, namely managerial overconfidence and human governance. The balanced panel sample covers Malaysian public listed companies from 2002 to 2011. The objectives of this study are to investigate the relationship between managerial overconfidence and its moderating effect on the relationship between CEO personal characteristics and firm leverage decisions. The findings are as follows: 1) CEO overconfidence, age and prior experience are significantly negative related to leverage; 2) The higher the education, the higher the debts; 3) CEO tenure is significantly positive related to leverage; 4) The higher the overconfidence level in presence of their age, the more the debts; 5) Firm leverage is lower when CEO with higher educational degree has higher confidence level. The result of the paper can fill the gap in the literature on the managerial overconfidence and its relationship with leverage decision of Malaysian public listed companies. Copyright � 2016 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-229842023-05-29T14:13:56Z Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia Ting I.W.K. Azizan N.A.B. Kweh Q.L. 57211409300 55214819000 55661469500 This paper examines the firm's leverage decision from new perspectives, namely managerial overconfidence and human governance. The balanced panel sample covers Malaysian public listed companies from 2002 to 2011. The objectives of this study are to investigate the relationship between managerial overconfidence and its moderating effect on the relationship between CEO personal characteristics and firm leverage decisions. The findings are as follows: 1) CEO overconfidence, age and prior experience are significantly negative related to leverage; 2) The higher the education, the higher the debts; 3) CEO tenure is significantly positive related to leverage; 4) The higher the overconfidence level in presence of their age, the more the debts; 5) Firm leverage is lower when CEO with higher educational degree has higher confidence level. The result of the paper can fill the gap in the literature on the managerial overconfidence and its relationship with leverage decision of Malaysian public listed companies. Copyright � 2016 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Final 2023-05-29T06:13:56Z 2023-05-29T06:13:56Z 2016 Conference Paper 10.1504/JGBA.2016.074894 2-s2.0-84959465851 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84959465851&doi=10.1504%2fJGBA.2016.074894&partnerID=40&md5=417be1153675c6983b6523a6e4629160 https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/22984 9 1 38 51 Inderscience Publishers Scopus
spellingShingle Ting I.W.K.
Azizan N.A.B.
Kweh Q.L.
Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia
title Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia
title_full Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia
title_fullStr Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia
title_short Managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. The moderating effect of human governance in Malaysia
title_sort managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. the moderating effect of human governance in malaysia
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