Gender and corporate finance: Are male executives overconfident relative to female executives?
By Jiekun Huang, Darren J. Kisgen. 2013
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Subfields: Accounting, Finance
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Citations in the corpus
- The Pre-Deal Phase of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, neutral): “The empirical findings indicate that CEOs who are young and male (J. Huang & Kisgen, 2013; Levi, Li, & Zhang, 2010; Yim, 2013), non-Republican (Elnahas & Kim, 2017), overconfident (Billett & Qian, 2008; Hayward & Hambrick, 1997; Malmendier & Tate, 2008; Malmendier & Tate, 2015), narcissistic (A.…”
- CEO Gender, Corporate Risk-Taking, and the Efficiency of Capital Allocation (2016, background): “Huang and Kisgen (2013) conclude that male executives appear to be more overconfident than female executives documenting that female executives are less likely to engage in acquisitions and less likely to issue debt than male executives.”
- The Impact of CEO Narcissism on Earnings Management (2018, neutral): “…financial reporting policy and the innate characteristics of individual CEOs: optimism and managerial risk-aversion (Graham et al., 2013); overconfidence (Schrand and Zechman, 2012); gender (Huang and Kisgen, 2013; Srinidhi et al., 2011); ethics (Elias, 2002); and masculinity (Jia et al., 2014).”
- Do women managers keep firms out of trouble? Evidence from corporate litigation and policies (2019, background): “For example, Huang and Kisgen (2013) find that female executives adopt less risky but more sensible financing and investment policies.”
- Executive stock options, gender diversity in the top management team, and firm risk taking (2015, methodology): “Furthermore, as Huang and Kisgen (2013) indicate, female executives are not randomly assigned to firms.”