There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as … expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financial experts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains … of decision making? We analyze survey responses of 649 fund managers in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Thailand, and find …

several firm-specific effects. First, these phases influence innovativeness and thus profit levels, output and employment of …. Furthermore, this paper also aims to model effects of relevant local factors on innovativeness bymeans of logit analysis … impacts on innovativeness of firms.Accordingly, the evolution of the importance of local factors for innovations is also found …