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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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PhD CEOs and firm performance
Andrew Urquhart,Hanxiong Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between the education of a CEO and firm performance and provide robust evidence that firms led by CEOs with PhDs outperform their peers by 3.03% and 4.65% respectively.
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Crowdfunding in real estate: evolutionary and disruptive
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the determinants and operational aspects of real estate crowdfunding (RECF henceforth) and provide a comparison with traditional real estate funding, and the ease and advantages that RECF offers to real estate investors.
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Impact of gender on access to finance in developing countries
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of female ownership on access to finance on a broad panel of developing countries was studied and it was found that female owners generally face more credit constraints compared to their male counterparts.
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Determinants of accounting choice: do CFOs’ characteristics matter?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine associations between observable characteristics of CFOs and accounting choices and demonstrate that CFO's characteristics partially explain their accounting choices, in particular those that lack graduate education or greater internationalization.
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CEO facial masculinity and firm financial outcomes
Jackson Mills,Karen M. Hogan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore relationships between CEO facial width, a proxy for testosterone levels during adolescence, and financial management decisions and find that higher CEO facial Width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is associated with more aggressive financial management decision.
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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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