Do Female Mutual Fund Managers Manage Differently

By S. Atkinson, S. Baird, Melissa B. Frye. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance

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Citations in the corpus

• Thar SHE Blows? Gender, Competition, and Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets† (2015, background): “Atkinson et al. (2003) find that flow of investment moneys to female-managed funds is lower, and Madden (2012) shows that, although performance is no different, women brokers receive lower-quality account referrals. Indeed, some evidence suggests that women brokers may outperform their male counterp”
• Gender and corporate finance: Are male executives overconfident relative to female executives? (2013, neutral): “Gender has been examined in other business settings, including stock trading behavior (Barber and Odean, 2001), the mutual fund industry (Atkinson, Baird, and Frye, 2003), start-up firms (Verheul and Thurik, 2001), and competitive environments in laboratory settings (Niederle and Versterlund, 2007).”
• The Impact of CFO Gender on Bank Loan Contracting (2013, background): “Despite the proliferation of studies, there is still much debate as to the systematic differences between men and women with regard to their risk attitudes (e.g., Dwyer et al. (2002) and Atkinson et al. (2003)).”
• Gender Differences in Financial Reporting Decision-Making: Evidence from Accounting Conservatism (2015, neutral): “In addition, we conduct an array of robustness checks to deal with omitted variable bias, selfselection bias, and other empirical issues that are acknowledged as limitations in both of their studies and are common concerns in gender studies (Atkinson, Baird, and Frye 2003).”
• Men, Women and Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence (2008, background): “11 Relative performance of male and female mutual fund managers is examined in Atkinson, Baird, and Frye (2003).”
• Sex matters: Gender differences in a professional setting (2007, background): “This suggests that stereotyping might also be an issue in the mutual fund industry: First, fund investors simply might not want to invest with a female manager (see, e.g., Atkinson, Baird, and Frye (2003) and Bigelow and McLean Parks (2006)).”
• Are Female CFOs Less Tax Aggressive? Evidence from Tax Aggressiveness (2014, neutral): “Empirical studies on gender issues often face the criticism that the observed differences are not attributable to gender, but instead to some omitted factors, such as situational factors and knowledge disparities (e.g., Dwyer, Gilkeson, and List 2002; Atkinson et al. 2003).”
• The perfect finance minister: Whom to appoint as finance minister to balance the budget? (2014, neutral): “…averse than men.6 However, other studies, focusing on managers and business professionals, could not find differences in financial risk preferences between men and women, once the financial and managerial knowledge is taken into account (Johnson and Powell, 1994; Atkinson, Baird, and Frye, 2003).”