The effects of gender composition of senior management on the economic fallout

Cynthia Bansak, Mary Graham and Allan Zebedee

Applied Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 18, issue 16, 1603-1607

Abstract: In this article, we test the proposition that the presence of women in management impacts decision-making outcomes. In particular, we hypothesize that the greater the proportion of women on the senior management team, the lower the degree of risks taken at the firm level. Using data from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) and the US Treasury in this study, we create firm-level gender ratios and control for firm size to assess the impact on two separate risk outcome measures. We find some evidence that financial institutions with more women in the senior management team avoided having to accept Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds, but that the proportion of women executives has no impact on stock return volatility.

Keywords: gender; risk management; financial crisis; senior management; Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.554364

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