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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Working with women, do men get all the credit? |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Small Business Economics |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0921-898X |
| Volume | 59 |
| Page Range | 1427 - 1447 |
| Date | 2022 |
| Abstract Text | Are firms that are managed and owned by females-only appraised differently than those where genders mix at the top? To answer this question, we study 7,467 small and medium-sized firms from 22 countries. We find that – when borrowing from banks – firms that are both managed and owned by females more often report binding credit constraints and higher interest rate payments than male-only firms; differences that we can attribute to taste-based discrimination. In contrast, if the manager and the owner have a different gender, we find no such differences with male-only firms. Hence, interestingly banks seem to assume that women invariably play second fiddle in the mixed-gender firms. We also show that discrimination between female-only and other firms disappears from economically more developed regions and from credit markets that are more competitive or dominated by transactional lenders. |
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| Official URL | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00579-1 |
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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1007/s11187-021-00579-1 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:21587 |
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| Additional Information | Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 18-01 |