We investigate the effect of board gender diversity on managerial risk-taking incentives. Our results demonstrate that … companies with stronger board gender diversity provide more powerful executive risk-taking incentives. It appears that female … board gender diversity by one standard deviation raises vega by 10.3%. Further analysis corroborates the results, including …

that board gender diversity significantly deters the opportunistic timing of option grants. The effect of board gender … diversity is 17.19% stronger than that of board independence in reducing CEO luck. Board gender diversity plays an effective … governance role, even more effective than board independence does. Our results support the benefits of board gender diversity in …

This article examines recent literature on corporate boards and the interplay between director gender and CEO turnover … and how it affects firm performance after CEO turnover. The primary focus is board gender diversity and CEO job … embeddedness in entrepreneurial firms. This article discusses gender diversity and the frequency of CEO turnover. This paper finds …

matching of CEO types with directors' skill sets. We examine whether a gender-diverse board helps to mitigate the negative …, the positive effects of gender-diverse boards are concentrated in pre-SOX-non-compliant firms with overconfident managers …

US financial institutions. We found that in Canadian banks risk-taking executive behaviour was moderated by gender … diversity but no overall impact of gender diversity on financial risk-taking is evidenced in the US. Moreover, sub …

We argue gender-diverse boards are associated with distinct preferences that reassure investors about their commitment … to moderate risk and boost long-term corporate survival. Results suggest a strong relation between gender-diverse boards … with gender-diverse boards choosing similar peers. Bond and stock prices increase around female director appointment …

We explore the labor market effects of gender and race by examining board leadership appointments. Prior studies are …

useful signal to outside stakeholders of how serious companies are about gender equality. …