Geoffrey Tate
Dean's Professor of Finance
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland at College Park
Mailing Address
4417 Van
Munching Hall
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: (301) 405-4853
Email: gtate (at) umd.edu
Research
CEO
Overconfidence and Corporate Investment (with Ulrike Malmendier).
Journal of Finance, December 2005, vol. 60(6),
pp. 2661-2700.
Does
Overconfidence Affect Corporate Investment? CEO Overconfidence Measures
Revisited (with Ulrike Malmendier).
European Financial Management, November 2005, vol. 11(5),
pp. 649-659.
Financial
Expertise of Directors (with A. Burak Guner and Ulrike Malmendier).
Journal of Financial
Economics,
May 2008, vol. 88(2), pp. 323-354.
Who Makes
Acquisitions? CEO Overconfidence and the Market's Reaction (with
Ulrike Malmendier).
Journal of Financial
Economics,
July 2008, vol. 89(1), pp. 20-43.
Superstar
CEOs (with Ulrike Malmendier).
Quarterly Journal of
Economics,
November 2009, vol. 124(4), pp. 1593-1638. Online
Appendix.
Overconfidence
and Early-life Experiences: The Effect of Managerial Traits on Corporate
Financial Policies (with Ulrike Malmendier and Jon Yan).
Journal
of Finance, October
2011, vol. 66(5), pp. 1687-1733. Online
Appendix.
External
Networking and Internal Firm Governance (with Cesare Fracassi).
Journal
of Finance,
February 2012, vol. 67(1), pp. 153-194. Online
Appendix.
Female
Leadership and Gender Equity: Evidence from Plant Closure (with Liu
Yang).
Journal
of Financial Economics,
July 2015, vol. 117(1), pp. 77-97. Online
Appendix.
The Bright
Side of Corporate Diversification: Evidence from Internal Labor Markets
(with Liu Yang).
Review
of Financial Studies,
August 2015, vol. 28(8), pp. 2203-2249. Online
Appendix.
Behavioral
CEOs: The Role of Managerial Overconfidence (with Ulrike Malmendier).
Journal
of Economic Perspectives,
Fall 2015, vol. 29(4), pp. 37-60.
Does Rating
Analyst Subjectivity Affect Corporate Debt Pricing? (with Cesare Fracassi
and Stefan Petry).
Journal
of Financial Economics,
June 2016, vol. 120(3), pp. 514-538. Online
Appendix.
Learning
from Coworkers: Peer Effects on Individual Investment Decisions (with Paige
Ouimet).
Journal
of Finance,
February 2020, vol. 75(1), pp. 133-172.
Attention for
the Inattentive: Positive Effects of Negative Financial Shocks (with Paige
Ouimet).
Review
of Finance,
May 2020, vol. 24(3), pp. 615-646.
The Human
Factor in Acquisitions: Cross-industry Labor Mobility and Corporate
Diversification (with Liu Yang).
Review of Financial
Studies,
January 2024, vol. 37(1), pp. 45-88.
Friends
During Hard Times: Evidence from the Great Depression (with Tania Babina
and Diego Garcia).
Journal
of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,
September 2024, vol. 59(6), pp. 2647-2694.
Entrepreneurial
Teams: Diversity of Skills and Early-Stage Growth (with Francesco D'Acunto
and Liu Yang). November 2020.
Firms with Benefits? Nonwage Compensation and Implications for Firms and Labor Markets (with Paige Ouimet). April 2022.