CEO Gender: Effects on Valuation and Risk

By A. Martín, Takeshi Nishikawa, M. Williams. 2009

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Gender diversity and earnings management: the case of female directors with financial background (2021, background): “Another theory (drawing insights from behavioral, economic and psychology theories) underpinning female directors’ monitoring efficacy is that female directors are more conservative and risk-averse than their male counterparts are (Powell and Ansic 1997; Martin et al. 2009; Huang and Kisgen 2013; Fa”
CEO Gender, Ethical Leadership, and Accounting Conservatism (2015, background): “High-risk firms are more likely to appoint female CEOs to modulate risk (Martin et al. 2009).”
Female CEOs and Core Earnings Quality: New Evidence on the Ethics Versus Risk-Aversion Puzzle (2018, unknown): “Another strand of studies (Croson and Gneezy 2009; Faccio et al. 2016; Martin et al. 2009) has investigated gender impact on risk aversion and indicates that female executives are more risk-averse than male executives are.”
Executive stock options, gender diversity in the top management team, and firm risk taking (2015, background): “Following the same argument, those firms with high levels of risk that are looking to reduce their exposure to risk may prefer to appoint female executives (Martin et al., 2009).”