) abilities and on the sectoral concentration risk of a credit portfolio. In this paper, we examine in the first part if … cooperative banks. In the second part we measure the overall effect of better monitoring and the associated higher sectoral credit … concentrations on the credit risk of the portfolio. Our empirical results suggest that specialization benefits overcompensate the …

firms. The study is based on the credit files of the respective firms. If no problems occur in these lending relationships …, the traditional view of credit assessment as observation of the quality of a borrower's investment programme needs to be …

Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest … largest insurance companies: on both executive and supervisory boards, the proportion of women has sunk to almost nine and 22 … percent, respectively. For over ten years, DIW Berlin has been investigating to what extent women are represented in the top …

examination of credit files of five leading German banks, thus relying on information actually used in the process of bank credit …

This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality … in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most … resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies: mathematics. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show …

This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality … in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most … resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies: mathematics. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show …

form of credit markets. -- Gender ; access to credit ; peer-to-peer lending … results show that gender does not affect individual borrower's chances of funding success on this platform, ceteris paribus …. Hence, gender discrimination seems to be a platform-specific phenomenon rather than a common attribute of this innovative …

This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …

results show that gender does not affect individual borrower''s chances of funding success on this platform, ceteris paribus …. Hence, gender discrimination seems to be a platform-specific phenomenon rather than a common attribute of this innovative … form of credit markets …