Gender and corporate finance: Are male executives overconfident relative to female executives?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Huang, Jiekun; Kisgen, Darren J.
• 署名单位: National University of Singapore; Boston College
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-405X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2012.12.005
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 822-839
• 关键词: Corporate policies; GENDER; overconfidence; Mergers and Acquisitions

摘要

We examine corporate financial and investment decisions made by female executives compared with male executives. Male executives undertake more acquisitions and issue debt more often than female executives. Further, acquisitions made by firms with male executives have announcement returns approximately 2% lower than those made by female executive firms, and debt issues also have lower announcement returns for firms with male executives. Female executives place wider bounds on earnings estimates and are more likely to exercise stock options early. This evidence suggests men exhibit relative overconfidence in significant corporate decision making compared with women. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.