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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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Closing the gender gap in top management teams: An examination of diversity and compensation parity in family and non-family firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined gender equity in listed family and non-family firms in the U.S. and found that family firms are successful in attenuating the gender compensation gap in their top management teams, and that they leverage their distinct family features to both preserve their socioemotional wealth and add to their inimitable resource cache, while also being socially responsible on a societal level.
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Does gender diversity matter for risk-taking? Evidence from Italian financial institutions
Elisa Menicucci,Guido Paolucci +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between gender diversity and the risk profile of Italian financial institutions during the period 2013 to 2019 and found that financial institutions headed by women are more risk averse since they account upper capital adequacy and equity to assets ratios.
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Portfolio performance across genders and generations: The role of financial innovation
TL;DR: In this article, the role of gender and age in the use of ETPs with respect to implications for portfolio performance was explored using a unique dataset on trading transaction records of private investors from Sweden.
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Age, Gender, and Risk-Taking: Evidence from the S&P 1500 Executives and Firm Riskiness
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether the age and gender of the firm's top executives are reflected in firm-level riskiness and found evidence of a strong positive relationship between female executives and firm risk after controlling for firm specific attributes and managerial risk-taking incentives.
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Female directors on audit committees and audit quality : evidence from the UK
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether accounting, non-accounting, public accounting and CFO expertise of female audit committee members are associated with audit quality and found a positive association between female directors on audit committees and audit quality.
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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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