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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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Modelling Financial Satisfaction Across Life Stages: A Latent Class Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the determinants of financial satisfaction using a modelling framework which allows the drivers of financial satisfaction to vary across life stages, given that financial satisfaction is measured as an ordered variable.
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The search for alignment of board gender diversity, the adoption of environmental management systems, and the association with firm performance in Asian firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how board gender diversity can address the challenges to adopt environment management systems (EMS) to improve firm performance and found that the inclusion of board diversity as moderator significantly improves the relationship between EMS and firm performance.
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The impact of CFO gender on corporate fraud: Evidence from China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the impact of CFO gender on financial reporting-related corporate fraud and found that female CFOs are more risk-averse and ethical than men.
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Read between the lines: Board gender diversity, family ownership, and risk‐taking in Indian high‐tech firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of board gender diversity on firm risk-taking level and found that female executives operating in high-tech sectors take more risk than their counterparts female executives who operate in non-high sector.
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Women in Finance: A Case for Closing Gaps
Ratna Sahay,Martin Cihak +1 more
TL;DR: A recent study at the IMF found that women are underrepresented at all levels of the global financial system, from depositors and borrowers to bank board members and regulators as mentioned in this paper, and that greater inclusion of women as users, providers, and regulators of financial services would have benefits beyond addressing gender inequality.
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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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