We administered OLS regressions test on the overconfidence bias and the board of directors to obtain evidence concerning CEOs psychological traits and attitudes. We find that CEOs in Tunisian firms are overconfident and the board of directors characteristics as size, independence and duality can...

This study investigates the impact of Delaware law on the composition and size of the board of directors. Our empirical evidence reveals that Delaware firms have smaller and more independent boards than their non-Delaware counterparts. Given that we find no value-premium for firms that...

We provide robust evidence that stocks of the firms with gender-diverse boards experienced higher abnormal returns during the period when negative market sentiment induced by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak. Further, we find that the documented effect was amplified among...

In the wake of the 2008 economic financial crisis, several corporate governance issues have became more relevant in the daily corporate life, among them Gender Diversity. Institutional investors, due to the critical environment began to scrupulously analyze the companies, in which they invest,...

We examine stock market reactions, direct costs of compliance, and board adjustments to California Senate Bill No. 826 (SB 826), the first mandated board gender diversity quota in the United States. Announcement returns average -1.2% and are robust to the use of multiple methodologies. Returns...

Regulators and shareholders are calling for independent directors. Independent directors, however, have numerous external professional commitments. Using To- bin's Q as an approximation of market valuation and controlling for endogeneity, our empirical analysis reveals that neither external...

The hallmark of good corporate governance is an independent board of directors to oversee management. However, it is not clear that independent directors receive the information they need to make fully informed decisions on all key matters. Partly, this is due to an information gap, whereby...

Motivated by the current discussion to reform the election process of directors to the board, this paper presents a model that shows that when shareholders have direct access to proxy the quality of the board improves. This is so, because more independent directors – regarded as better...