A "folk theorem" originating, among others, in the work of Stiglitz maintains that competitive equilibria area always or "generically" inefficient (unless contracts directly specify consumption levels as in Prescott and Townsend, thus bypassing trading in anonymous markets). This paper...

This study investigates the effect of gender diversity on boards on information asymmetry problems in the French stock market. We use Bid-Ask Spread BASP estimator of Corwin and Schultz (2012) as a proxy for asymmetric information in stock markets. The study shows the following results. First,...