In addition to these deal-level control variables, we include all the firm-level, CEO-level, CEO-CFO dyadic level control variables used in testing Hypothesis 4. We use a cross-sectional dataset to test Hypothesis 5 and cannot conduct firm fixed-effects regressions; thus, we control for Fama-French 48 industry fixed effects (Fama & French, 1997) and year fixed-effects. Table 2A shows descriptive statistics for variables used in testing Hypotheses 1-4 (at the firm-year level) and Table 2B shows descriptive statistics for variables used in testing Hypothesis 5 (at the deal level).