Will Women be Women? Analyzing the Gender Difference Among Financial Experts

By Daniela Beckmann, Lukas Menkhoff. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, General Decision Sciences

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Citations in the corpus

• Women directors, family ownership and earnings management in Malaysia (2016, background): “Consistent with prior studies which suggest that women are more conservative, risk averse and ethical (e.g. Beckmann and Menkhoff, 2008; Eckel and Grossman, 2008; Fehr-Duda, 2006; Watson and McNaughton, 2007), Peni and Vahamaa (2010) reveal that firms with female CFOs are associated with…”
• Pursuing Quality: How Search Costs and Uncertainty Magnify Gender-based Double Standards in a Multistage Evaluation Process (2017, background): “…vibrant debate related to gender differences in risk aversion in the finance industry (e.g., Hinz, McCarthy, and Turner, 1997; VanDerhei and Bajtelsmit, 1997; Jianakoplos and Bernasek, 1998; Sunden and Surette, 1998; Barber and Odean, 2001; Niessen and Ruenzi, 2007; Beckmann and Menkhoff, 2008).”
• Gender and risk: women, risk taking and risk aversion (2010, background): “men (Badunenko et al., 2009; Hibbert et al., 2008; Beckman and Menkhoff, 2008; Eckel and Grossman, 2008; Charness and Gneezy, 2007; Harrtell, 2007; Fellner and Maciejovsky, 2007; He et al., 2007; Iqbal et al., 2006; Meier-Pesti and Goetze, 2006; Holt and Laury, 2002; Dohmen et al., 2005; Sunden and ”
• Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men? (2012, unknown): “4 In the articles reviewed below, some examples of such more nuanced (and accurate) presentations of results can be found, even though generic statements predominate. radios" discussed in Khemlani, Leslie et al. (2012)), and some research has suggested Bayesian models for the formation of generics (”
• The Political Economy of “Transnational Business Feminism” (2015, background): “Within the economics literature, one reason for this comes down to pure biology, as studies have found that heightened levels of testosterone may lead to more risky behavior (Beckmann and Menkhoff 2008; Coates 2012).”
• Gender and Competition (2011, background): “Beckmann & Menkhoff (2008) conduct a survey to directly assess individual differences in competitive attitudes.”