Gender and banking: Are women better loan officers?

Review of Finance

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1279-1321

  Beck, Thorsten ^a   Behr, Patrick ^a   Guettler, Andre ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

G21; J16

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878831916     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfs028     Document Type: Article

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