country’s gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …

country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are … females are found to allocate equal shares of their wealth to risky assets. -- Gender ; risk aversion ; financial behavior …

This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …

remains significant at conventional levels. We carry out the same exercise for patience and document no significant gender …

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …-employment and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment … states. The gender differential in the transition rates is decomposed using a novel extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca technique …

the stock market decreases. On the other hand, monetary policy is gender-neutral for stock market participants: there are …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs …

This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit … probability that they apply for credit is on average lower. Yet, this gender difference in the probability of credit application … is only evident when considering firms with negative or neutral sales expectations. There is no significant gender …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …