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The bright side of the GDPR : welfare-improving privacy management

Choe, Chongwoo; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023

We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...

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Valuing Soft Information : IPO Price Formation and Board Gender Diversity

Rau, P. Raghavendra; Sandvik, Jason; Vermaelen, Theo - 2022

We study the relation between board gender diversity and initial public offering (IPO) price formation. We find that … institutional investor demand for board gender diversity. We find evidence that underwriters with greater network centrality are … better able to incorporate information about investor preferences for board gender diversity into IPO prices, reducing the …

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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022

on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany … the gender quota reform on gender diversity. Second, although the Norwegian gender quota has increased the probability of …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about …

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Director Self-Dealing and the Design of Compensation Contracts

Fang, Lily H.; Huang, Sterling - 2022

In 2020, the average total director compensation in U.S. listed companies stood at $450,680, 6.67 times the median household income. Company pairs with shared directors have more similar pay than can be explained by size, industry, and performance. Following a landmark Delaware court ruling that...

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Corruption beyond the glass ceiling : do women entrepreneurs perceive corruption differently?

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2019

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality. …

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Immediate manager gender and female wages : the importance of manager position

Halldén, Karin; Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Rosén, Åsa - 2016

One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are particularly beneficial for female employees through, e.g., role modeling or mentoring. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that female wages are negatively associated...

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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk … aversion among women explains a large share of the entrepreneurial gender gap. We also find an education effect contributing to …

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Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? : evidence from the NCAA

Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2019

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National … Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on …

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Gender quotas and the quality of politicians

Baltrunaite, Audinga (contributor) - 2012

We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We … consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all … a Difference in Differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the quality of elected politicians. We …

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Measuring alpha in the fund management industry : do female managers perform better?

Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …

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