extreme tail events, the epidemic experience induces entrepreneurs to undervalue profitable investment projects. In particular …, implying that the reduction in corporate investment is inefficient. Our paper reveals a specific channel through which epidemic …

We study the effect of corporate board gender quotas on firm performance in Belgium, France, Italy and Spain. The … double and triple difference estimators with ex-ante matching. We find that gender quotas had either a negative or an … productivity. We then focus on Italy and offer possible explanations for the positive effect of gender quotas using detailed …

the assumption that gender balanced boards result in improved corporate governance and performance. The investigation of … objective of one-third of the corporate board seats for members of the under-represented gender, lowered to one-fifth for the … analyzing both the effectiveness of the Law in terms of its impact on boardroom gender diversity and on other board attributes …

Firms may have gender differences in governance characteristics, which may lead to differences in the firms … in the way credit is allocated according to the gender of managers in the firms and that women-led firms are more …

In 2018, California became the first U.S. state to introduce a mandatory board gender quota for all firms headquartered … returns of -2.6% to the adoption of the gender quota for California firms and large spillover effects of -1.9% for non … non-California firms in states that followed California's legislative lead in the past by, e.g., introducing gender quota …