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

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 822-839

  Huang, Jiekun ^a   Kisgen, Darren J ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate policies; Gender; Mergers and acquisitions; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877605370     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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