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In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...
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In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538972
In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979668
From business to politics and academia, the economic effects of the introduction of gender quotas are under scrutiny. We provide new evidence based on the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for boards of directors of Italian companies listed on the stock market. Comparing before and after...
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From business to politics and academia, the economic effects of the introduction of gender quotas are under scrutiny. We provide new evidence based on the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for boards of directors of Italian companies listed on the stock market. Comparing before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845209
In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982112
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content of realized volatility measures extracted from high-frequency data. For this purpose, we introduce asymptotically … high frequency data often suffice to obtain the same level of precision as twenty years of daily data, thereby making our … approach particularly useful in finance applications where only short data samples are available or economically meaningful to …
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The estimation of the volatility with high-frequency data is plagued by the presence of microstructure noise, which …. Building on this approach, in this paper we introduce three main innovations: (i) we use as data-generating process the Queue …
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Corporate earnings announcements unpack large bundles of information that should, if markets are efficient, almost surely trigger jumps in stock prices immediately after the news release. Testing this implication is difficult in practice because most earnings announcements occur in the...
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