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Financial experts on the top management team: Do they reduce investment inefficiency?

Zhe Li Orcid Logo, Oksana Pryshchepa, Bo Wang

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Volume: 50, Issue: 1-2

Swansea University Author: Zhe Li Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/jbfa.12575

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We examine the effect of Top Management Team (TMT) professional finance experience on firm investment efficiency. Top managers with a career background in finance help reduce deviations of investment from the level warranted by firm fundamentals. Reductions in investment inefficiencies are achieved...

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Published in: Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
ISSN: 0306-686X 1468-5957
Published: Wiley 2021
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