How Can You Tell When A CEO Is Lying?

NPR:

In the financial markets, a lot rides on the word of a company’s top executives. If a CEO tells a lie, a lot of shareholders can get hurt.

Now, after studying thousands of corporate earnings calls, two researchers from Stanford University think they’ve come up with a way to tell when senior executives are fibbing.

It’s a question that people have been wrestling with for as long as humans have been interacting with each other.

“I think since the Garden of Eden we’ve been trying to figure this out — who’s lying and who’s not lying,” says David Larcker, a professor of accounting at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

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How Can You Tell When A CEO Is Lying?
Jim Zarroli
NPR , October 18, 2010
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130544236

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