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Gender and corporate finance: Are male executives overconfident relative to female executives?
Jiekun Huang,Darren J. Kisgen +1 more
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This paper examined corporate financial and investment decisions made by female executives compared with male executives and found that female executives place wider bounds on earnings estimates and are more likely to exercise stock options early.About:
This article is published in Journal of Financial Economics.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 772 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Corporate finance & Earnings.read more
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Female small business owners in China: Discouraged, not discriminated
TL;DR: In this article , the authors use a unique dataset containing 435,990 small business loan applications from a P2P platform in China and show that female entrepreneurs are more likely to be discouraged from applying for funds after a failed attempt compared to their male counterparts.
CEO overconfidence effects on mergers and acquisitions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the effect of overconfidence on the probability of overconfident CEOs pursuing multiple M&A deals and find no evidence about the acquisitiveness and worse performance of over confident CEOs compared to others.
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Mapping knowledge domains on managerial overconfidence
Shiliang Xia,Jingjing Duan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used bibliometric tools of VOSviewer and CiteSpace to reflect the research trend, hot spots and evolving route of managerial overconfidence theme.
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Are female CFOs trailblazers or sustainers? Evidence from industry growth prospects in China
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of female corporate financial officers (CFOs) on corporate financial policies in industries with different rates of growth. In general, we find that female CFOs in Ch...
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Onshore guarantees for offshore loans and bank risk-taking: Evidences from Taiwanese banks
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the issue of onshore guarantees for offshore loans, which are significant off-balance-sheet activities that have seldom been examined. And they found that banks with more risk-taking have higher amounts of such guarantees.
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How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors randomly generate placebo laws in state-level data on female wages from the Current Population Survey and use OLS to compute the DD estimate of its "effect" as well as the standard error of this estimate.
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Testing for Weak Instruments in Linear IV Regression
James H. Stock,Motohiro Yogo +1 more
TL;DR: This paper proposed quantitative definitions of weak instruments based on the maximum IV estimator bias, or the maximum Wald test size distortion, when there are multiple endogenous regressors, and tabulated critical values that enable using the first-stage F-statistic (or, for instance, the Cragg-Donald (1993) statistic) to test whether give n instruments are weak.
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Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment
Brad M. Barber,Terrance Odean +1 more
TL;DR: Theoretical models predict that overconedent investors trade excessively as mentioned in this paper, and they test this prediction by partitioning investors on gender by analyzing the common stock investments of men and women from February 1991 through January 1997.
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Managing with Style: The Effect of Managers on Firm Policies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether and how individual managers affect corporate behavior and performance and show that managers with higher performance effects receive higher compensation and are more likely to be found in better governed environments.
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Women in the boardroom and their impact on governance and performance
TL;DR: This paper found that female directors have better attendance records than male directors, male directors have fewer attendance problems the more gender-diverse the board is, and women are more likely to join monitoring committees.
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