DO WOMEN PAY MORE FOR CREDIT? EVIDENCE FROM ITALY
利用意大利银行与微型企业之间贷款合同的大数据集，研究发现女性比男性支付更高的信贷成本，但女性借款人的风险并不更高，且同一银行对男女收取不同利率。
By using a unique and large data set on loan contracts between banks and microfirms, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for credit than men, although we do not find any evidence that women borrowers are riskier than men. The male/female differential remains even after controlling for a large number of characteristics of the type of business, the borrower, and the structure of the credit market. The result is not driven by lack of credit history, nor by women using a different type of bank than men, since the same bank charges different rates to male and female borrowers.