Introduction to the experiences and challenges in the development of the Chinese capital market / Douglas Cumming, Alessandra Guariglia, Wenxuan Hou, and Edward Lee -- Information asymmetry and the diversification discount : evidence from listed firms in China / Michael Firth, Man Jin and...

This paper investigates whether and how differently performance of Islamic banks is affected when female directors sit in the board. We study a unique sample of 1,528 observations on 71 Islamic banks and 120 conventional banks operating in eleven Muslim countries over 2010-2017 period. We find...