Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of … the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm … performance. We build the largest dataset of Australian board appointments assembled to date. We use our data to demonstrate how …

2007 and has only slowly increased during the period 1997-2007. We test three hypotheses on female board representation … board of directors tend to have significantly fewer other non-staff board members. We find clear evidence of a tokenism … behavior in Danish companies. Having one non-staff woman on the board is negatively related to the chance of hiring another …

across 41 advanced and emerging European economies. We demonstrate that gender board diversity has generally increased, yet … management boards among both private and public firms: the same factor may exhibit a positive correlation to a management board …, and a negative correlation to a supervisory board, or vice versa. We interpret these findings as evidence that country …

for corporate board membership. The main aim of these laws is breaking the "glass ceiling" which prevents women from … in gender quota that remain effective for three consecutive board renewals of listed limited liability firms. We link … firm-level information on board membership and board election dates with detailed employment and earnings records from the …

on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board-director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock … Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is … relationship with performance. Board turnover instead is unrelated to performance but is related to the firm's ownership structure …

foreign and female directors. It also shows that board characteristics are linked to company performance (the market … Russia. Testing for structural breaks in the relationship between board composition and firm performance provides some …