{"id":488,"date":"2020-07-09T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genderfinance.net\/?p=488"},"modified":"2025-02-12T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:30:30","slug":"gender-finance-at-em-strasbourg-large-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genderfinance.net\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Gender &#038; Finance at EM Strasbourg LaRGE seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gender &amp; Finance presented at EM Strasbourg Business School LaRGE seminar<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\\\"alignright\\\"><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.essec.edu\/en\/staff\/faculty\/francois-longin\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\/\/genderfinance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/06\/img_Photo_Gender_finance_Francois_Longin.png\\\" alt=\\\"Prof. Fran\u00e7ois Longin ESSEC Business School\\\" width=\\\"130\\\" height=\\\"162\\\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.essec.edu\/en\/staff\/faculty\/estefania-santacreu-vasut\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\/\/genderfinance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_Photo_Gender_finance_Estefania_Santacreu_Vasut.png\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-17\\\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender &amp; Finance recently presented its research at the LaRGE seminar of EM Strasbourg Business School. The presentation took place in Strasbourg on March 13th 2020. Gender &amp; Finance Co-founder and Associate Professor Estefania Santacreu-Vasut presented experimental research on the stock market reaction to CEO appointments as function of gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LaRGE (Management and Economics Research Center, UR 2364) is the University of Strasbourg\u2019s research center focused on finance. We had interesting feedback from PhD students and professors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the session we presented our paper&nbsp;<a href=\\\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3370078\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">Is Gender in the Pocket of Investors? Identifying Gender Homophily Towards CEOs in a Lab Experiment<\/a>&nbsp;which is based on a lab experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three stylized facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the seminar, we motivated our research with three stylized facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fact #1: Women are under-represented in CEO positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fact #2: Stock markets in the US react more negatively to the appointment of a female CEO than to that of male CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fact #3: Women are under-represented also in finance related educational and professional arenas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We presented how our research can provide a unified explanation of the three stylized facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To do so, we rely on insights from sociology and behavioral economics<\/li><li>We build a trading experiment to study how individual investors react to CEO appointments<\/li><li>We causally identify the role of investors preferences and quantify the role of investors\u2019 gender diversity on the aggregate stock market reaction<\/li><li>In short, we find evidence of gender homophily among investors which can rationalize the relation between facts #1, #2 and #3<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research on behavioral finance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Laurent WEILL and Francis Osei-Tutu discussed with us their very interesting work \u201c<a href=\\\"https:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/p\/lar\/wpaper\/2019-03.html\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">How Language Shapes Bank Risk Taking<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Slides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact us for more information or for research collaborations! And check our presentation slides!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\\\"text-align: center;\\\"><figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><a class=\\\"\\\" href=\\\"https:\/\/genderfinance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Slides_HEC_Lausanne.pdf\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener\\\"><img src=\\\"https:\/\/genderfinance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/btn_Gender_finance_Presentation.png\\\" alt=\\\"Presentation on gender and finance\\\" width=\\\"267\\\" height=\\\"57\\\"><\/a><\/figure><\/div><br>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener\\\" href=\\\"http:\/\/www.essec.edu\/en\/staff\/faculty\/francois-longin\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\">Prof. Fran\u00e7ois Longin<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener\\\" href=\\\"http:\/\/www.essec.edu\/en\/staff\/faculty\/estefania-santacreu-vasut\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\">Prof. Santacreu-Vasut<\/a><br>ESSEC Business School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender &amp; Finance presented at EM Strasbourg Business School LaRGE seminar &nbsp; Gender &amp; Finance recently presented its research at the LaRGE seminar of EM Strasbourg Business School. The presentation took place in Strasbourg on March 13th 2020. 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