financial support received from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Approval Nos. 71102063, 71572019 and 71232004);the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (Approval Nos. CQDXWL-2013-Z005 and 106112015CDJSK 02XK12)
Based on signaling and gender discrimination theory, we examine whether chief financial officer(CFO) gender matters to bank–firm relationships and the designing of collateral clauses in bank loan contracting, and exp...