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Gender, risk-taking and organization form : evidence from the U.S. property-casualty insurance industry
Get PDFIn this paper, we investigate the impact of female CEOs on firm’s risk-taking for U.S. property-casualty insurance companies with differing organizational forms. We analyse the three principal organizational form types in the industry—publicly traded stocks, closely held stocks, and mutuals. Less is known about the role of female CEOs in firms with organizational forms other than publicly traded stock firms. Various ownership structures are associated with varying agency costs between owners and managers. We posit that varying firm ownership structures affect the impact of female CEOs on firm risk-taking. We do not find direct evidence of female CEOs on firm risking in mutuals, consistent with the argument that mutuals operate in less complex lines of business and require less managerial discretion. However, female CEOs affect risk-taking in stocks. Specifically, female CEOs reduce the insolvency probability in closely held stocks but not in publicly traded stocks. We also incorporate female directors’ participation into the analysis. Female CEOs and female directors play different roles as managers and monitors within the corporate governance mechanisms respectively. We find that, with female directors’ participation, female CEOs have an additional positive effect on firm risks and performance in publicly traded stocks
Resurgence/Re-existence : the power and beauty of the sovereign people
No full textModerators: WEI Ran (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) KHO Tungyi (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Speaker (60-90 mins): Walter MIGNOLO (Duke University, USA/Argentina
Chinese ecological thought and practices
No full textSpeakers (30 mins each): HUANG Ping (Chinese Institute of Hong Kong, China) WEN Tiejun (Peking University, China) DAI Jinhua (Peking University, China) WANG Hui (Tsinghua University, China
PWAG : feminist futures : politics of possibilities (I)
No full textModerators: AUYEUNG Lai Seung (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China) Margo OKAZAWA-REY (Fielding Graduate University, USA) Carla WEYMANN (PeaceWomen Across the Globe)
Speakers: Nuria COSTA (Mexico) Camila GODOI (Brazil) Felogene ANUMO (Kenya) Fuifuilupe NIUMEITOLU (Tonga
Hong Kong and GBA: psychological distance among Hong Kong working adults
Get PDFThis research is conducted by Professor Joshua Ka-ho MOK, Professor Alex Yue-feng ZHU and Dr Geng-hua HUANG.
The research team commissioned an international survey firm Dynata to collect data from a sample of young adults in Hong Kong aged between 18 to 35 years between 25 March 2019 and 1 April 2019. Dynata adopted a random sampling method and selected / invited young adults from all eighteen local districts of Hong Kong to make up a ratio of participants from Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories that would be close to 2:3:5.
The final sample consisted of 1,028 respondents, among whom 52.1% were male. The research team categorized the young adults into three income groups based on their self-reported monthly incomes: those with a monthly income of between 0 and 19,999 Hong Kong dollars (HKD) were grouped as low-income earners; those between HKD 20,000 and HKD 29,999 were grouped as middle-income earners; while those with a monthly income equal to or above HKD 30,000 were grouped as high-income earners. The relative numbers of low-, middle-, and high-income young adults were 41.9%, 30.9%, and 27.1%, respectively.
The research team measured positive attitude toward GBA cities in Mainland, situational concerns, experience of visiting Mainland GBA cities, intention to migrate to a Mainland GBA City and a series of sociodemographic variables