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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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Styles of regulators : evidence from the sec comment letters
TL;DR: This article found that SEC staff members exhibit unique personal "styles and the effects of their personal styles on firms' remediation costs, the contents of SEC comment letters, and the quality of firms' financial reporting are surprisingly large.
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Are Firms with Female CEOs More Environmentally Friendly
Zigan Wang,Zigan Wang,Luping Yu +2 more
TL;DR: This article found that firms with female CEOs produce less air and water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and receive fewer environmental penalties, compared to firms with male CEOs, after experiencing a male-to-female CEO transition.
Does it matter where you work? International evidence on female board representation I
Thomas Schmid,Daniel Urban +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a board dataset of 35,000 firms across 53 countries and found that female board members lead to higher valuations in more developed countries, which may be explained by a more efficient selection process of female board member in these countries and by investors' anticipation of future quota legislation.
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The Relationship Dilemma: Why Do Banks Differ in the Pace at Which They Adopt New Technology?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the adoption of credit scoring technology by two main types of banks operating in India, new private banks and state-owned public sector banks, and show that an important factor explaining the difference in adoption is the stickiness of past bank structures and associated managerial practices.
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CEO Facial Width Predicts Firm Financial Policies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) and corporate financial management decisions and found that higher levels of testosterone may induce CEOs to pursue more aggressive financial policies.
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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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