Bayat, AliGoergen, MarcKoutroumpis, PanagiotisWei, Xingjie2024-12-102024-12-102025-02Bayat, A, Goergen, M, Koutroumpis, P & Wei, X 2025, 'The impact of CEO political ideology on labor cost reductions and payout decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Corporate Finance, vol. 90, pp. 102692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.1026920929-1199crossref: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.102692ORCID: /0000-0003-0381-7756/work/172467744https://hdl.handle.net/2164/24734We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Tracy Wang, the Editor, and an anonymous referee for the helpful guidance we received. We are grateful for helpful comments and suggestions to participants at the 7th annual conference of the International Corporate Governance Society at the University of Groningen, the 12th Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference at Monash University, the 2022 Finance Forum, the 2022 British Academy of Management Conference, the 22nd Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association conference, and the 2023 World-Class Workshop in Finance at Edinburgh University Business School. We would also like to thank seminar participants at the universities of Aberdeen, Leeds, Sabanci, and Sussex, as well as participants at the 2022 Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment at Copenhagen Business School, for their comments on earlier versions of this paper. Special thanks are due to Miguel García-Cestona, Ricard Gil, Jordan Neyland, and Hanwen Sun.283046491engCEO political ideologydividend policyDownsizingLabor cost reductionsStakeholder managementCovid-19 PandemicHD28 Management. Industrial ManagementSupplementary Datahttps://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0929119924001548-mmc1.pdfHD28Journal article10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.10269290