Past research has indicated the female-owned businesses are outperformed by male-owned businesses on a number of measures including revenue, profit, and growth.However, much of this research has been based upon data using limited samples, possibly skewing the results.This study analyzes the...

Women are generally considered more risk averse than men. Controlling for age, income, and education, this study examined the impact of gender on the superannuation (retirement) fund risk preferences of staff in the Australian university sector. The findings suggest that women choose more...

Taking the first bond defaults in each province in China as credit events, we adopt a difference-in-difference model and find that credit spreads of other corporate bonds in the same province increase by 6 basis points on the first default event day, suggesting a spillover effect. The spillover...