Xiaohong Huang , Rezaul Kabir , Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen
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Powerful female CEOs and the capital structure of firms
This study examines the impact of female CEOs and their power on corporate debt usage. Adopting the framework of Finkelstein (1992), we distinguish different power dimensions to analyze a sample of 418 CEOs of non-financial U.S. listed firms over the time period of 2007–2015. We find that the leverage of firms run by female CEOs is not different from that of firms run by male CEOs. However, when firms experience a transition of male-to-female CEOs, we find some evidence of an increase in debt. Further analysis shows that the gender effect is associated with the type of power CEOs possess. Female CEOs with structural power (reflected by low frequency of board meetings) and prestige power (reflected by education from an elite university) tend to use more debt than their powerful male peers. We recommend that the gender effect needs to be studied together with the power CEOs hold.
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Behavioral and Experimental Finance represent lenses and approaches through which we can view financial decision-making. The aim of the journal is to publish high quality research in all fields of finance, where such research is carried out with a behavioral perspective and / or is carried out via experimental methods. It is open to but not limited to papers which cover investigations of biases, the role of various neurological markers in financial decision making, national and organizational culture as it impacts financial decision making, sentiment and asset pricing, the design and implementation of experiments to investigate financial decision making and trading, methodological experiments, and natural experiments.
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance welcomes full-length and short letter papers in the area of behavioral finance and experimental finance. The focus is on rapid dissemination of high-impact research in these areas.
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