From Tyler Cowen:
1. In Danish data, if a CEO's child dies, the value of that CEO's company falls by one-fifth in the following two years.
2. If a CEO's wife dies, the value of that CEO's company falls by fifteen percent.
3. If a CEO's mother-in-law dies, the value of that CEO's company rises slightly.
The moral is simple: grief is debilitating, or at least distracting. Read the original paper here.
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Heh. You got blurbed over at Tyler Cowen.
You touch economics, he touches Proust.