Top Management Team Revealed Preference Data 

This webpage provides further information about the data set associated with the paper Raffiee, Fehder, and Teodoridis (2022) "Revealing the Revealed Preferences of Public Firm CEOs and Top Executives: A New Database from Credit Card Spending" published in the Strategic Management Journal. It details the steps required to access the full data set as well as a list of frequently asked questions. If you use our matching crosswalk or our matching code, please cite this paper.


Suggested citation:

Raffiee, J, Fehder, D., & Teodoridis, F. 2022. Revealing the revealed preferences of public firm CEOs and top executives: A new database from credit card spending. Strategic Management Journal. 43(10): 2042-2065 


Accessing the crosswalk file

Our public crosswalk that connects the Execucomp and L2 individual-level unique identifiers is available here. Using this crosswalk requires licenses to both Execucomp and the L2 Consumer File which provide the underlying data linked by this crosswalk. Click here for more information about L2.

Accessing the full data set

While we publicly provide a crosswalk that connects the Execucomp and L2 individual-level unique identifiers, we also can directly supply you with the data set described in the paper conditional on proof of purchase of a L2 data product that includes the L2 Consumer File by you or research institution with which you have an affiliation. This will allow you to sidestep the data wrangling steps necessary to get the data set in a regression-ready format.

If you would like to access the full data set, please fill out the form below to provide us with the information required to begin the process to confirm proof of purchase.

Frequently Asked Questions

As we receive questions from researchers seeking to build upon our paper, we will keep a list of answers on our FAQ page

Research Team

Assistant Professor

Management & Organization

Marshall School of Business

Associate Professor

Management & Organization

Marshall School of Business

Associate Professor

Management & Organization

Marshall School of Business

Research Assistants

Current Research Assistants

Ayush Tripathi - Masters student in Computer Science at USC Viterbi

Richard Delwin Myoth - Masters student in Computer Science at USC Viterbi

Former Research Assistants

Pranali Kanere - Facebook

Prasanna Natarajan - Amazon

Ritika Singhal - VMware

Mehul Kohli - Veeva Systems

Kaushik Kiran Karalgikar - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Snap Inc.

Jungwon (Alex) Son - PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin

Dhwani Kapadia - Wayfair

DK Lee - Google

Dipak Wani - IBM