CEO gender and the probability that firms go public

A comparison of CEO pay–performance sensitivity in privately-held and public firms☆

☆ We thank the Editor Stuart Gillan, an anonymous refe Kecskés,Mike Lemmon, Bingxuan Lin, PaulMalatesta, Ern Zhang, and seminar participants at ConcordiaUniversity,H Singapore, Peking University, Shanghai Advanced Institu of International Business and Economics, University of N Xiamen University, and conference participants at the ESE national Conference in Finance (Wuhan), the Northern Fi Fina...

Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender

Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender A vast labor literature has found evidence of a “glass ceiling”, whereby women are underrepresented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theo...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

CEO Compensation in Cooperatives versus Publicly Listed Firms

investigating the effect of motivation and attitude towards learning english, learning style preferences and gender on iranian efl learners proficiency

تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی تاثیر انگیزه و نگرش نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی، ترجیحات سبک یادگیری و جنسیت بر بسندگی فراگیران ایرانی زبان انگلیسی انجام شد. برای این منظور، 154 فراگیر ایرانی زبان انگلیسی در این تحقیق شرکت کردند. سه ابزار جمع آوری داده ها شامل آزمون تعیین سطح بسندگی زبان انگلیسی آکسفورد، پرسشنامه ترجیحات سبک یادگیری براچ و پرسشنامه انگیزه و نگرش نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به م...