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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...
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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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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 … position, and controlling for important sorting of employees, the negative association is found only among lower-level managers … and not among high-level managers. We discuss decision-making power as one possible explanation for this heterogeneity. …
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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment
Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2020
Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...
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Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers' economic progress
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022
We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...
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Ownership concentration, monitoring and optimal board structure
Graziano, Clara (contributor);  … - 2005
The paper analyzes the optimal structure of the board of directors in a firm with a large shareholder sitting on the board. In a one-tier structure the sole board performs all tasks, while in a two-tier structure the management board is in charge of project selection and the supervisory board is...
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Cracks in the boards : the opportunity cost of governance homogeneity
Maghin, Helene - 2022 - This version: June 23, 2022, first version: July 24, 2019
Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in boards of directors and supervisory boards to causally determine the impact of a change in leadership on performance. Using a novel design and data on boards, we find that firms...
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Peer effects and the gender gap in corporate leadership : evidence from MBA students
Hampole, Menaka; Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024
Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions....
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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?
Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015
The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...
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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 risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...
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