GENDER AND CENTRAL BANKING

Ibrahima Diouf and Dominique Pépin ()
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Ibrahima Diouf: CRIEF [Poitiers] - Centre de recherche sur l'intégration économique et financière - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers

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Abstract: Female Central Bank chairs represent but a tiny minority. To understand why, this article analyzes socioeconomic and socio-political characteristics of the countries where females have chaired Central Banks. Then, it suggests that gender differences in preferences as regards monetary policy goals may have some influence. This hypothesis is based on an empirical analysis showing that female Central Bank chairs focus more than their male colleagues on achieving the price stability goal. This means, then, that females are more resistant than males to political pressures. Finally, it concludes that gender differences in degree of conservatism, may be an explanatory factor in female underrepresentation in the Central Bank chairs.

Keywords: Central Bank; gender gap; preference parameters; female; conservatism; monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02
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Published in Economic Modelling, 2017, 61, pp.193-206. ⟨10.1016/j.econmod.2016.12.006⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2016.12.006

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