We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …

. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of … financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance … ; executives ; risk taking ; age ; gender ; education …

We analyze gender differences associated with loan officer performance. Using a unique data set for a commercial bank … unobservable borrower characteristics. This suggests that gender indeed matters in banking …

In this paper we study the relevance of the gender of the contracting parties involved in lending. We show that female … information available about the borrower and holds if we control for unobservable individual effects. The gender of the loan …

behavior. However, these studies are limited by a lack of variation in CEO gender, as only 5% of commercial bank CEOs and 6% of … Fortune 500 company CEOs are female. We examine gender differences in risk management and overconfidence in the distinct … gender differences in risk preferences and overconfidence hold under such circumstances? We utilize a unique dataset with 23 …

gender diversity in boards on bank riskiness and economic performance. Taking account of omitted variables and reverse … causality problems, as a source of endogeneity, our main econometric findings suggest that gender diversity may have a positive …

related to the banks' performance. Our results show that female CEOs who overcome gender barriers are less traditional and …