We find robust gender differences in bidding behavior in sealed bid auctions with independent and private valuations in … in the first-price auction, while we find no evidence of a gender difference in the likelihood of dominant strategy play … estrogen level is lowest, do not bid differently from men. The gender difference in the first-price auction is driven by women …

meetings. We also show that the positive relationship between corporate performance measures and gender diversity documented by … previous studies is not robust to attempts to address the endogeneity of diversity. Instead, the average effect of gender … with greater shareholder rights. In firms with weaker shareholder rights, gender diversity has positive effects. Our …

We analyze gender differences associated with loan officer performance. Using a unique data set for a commercial bank … monitoring, as loan officers of different gender do not seem to screen borrowers differently based on observable borrower … characteristics. This suggests that gender indeed matters in banking. …