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Gender and Board Activeness : The Role of a Critical Mass

Schwartz-Ziv, Miriam - 2015

This study analyzes detailed minutes of board meetings of business companies in which the Israeli government holds a substantial equity interest. Boards with at least three directors of each gender are found to be at least 79% more active at board meetings than those without such representation....

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The Gender Contribution to the Corporate Governance and the Corporate Performance

Arzu, Daniela - 2016

Firms may have gender differences in governance characteristics, which may lead to differences in the firms' performances themselves, and consequently in the way credit is allocated. The paper demonstrates that there are differences in governance characteristics and, most important, there is a...

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Is there a gender gap in CEO compensation?

Bugeja, Martin; Matolcsy, Zoltan P.; Spiropoulos, Helen - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 18 (2012) 4, pp. 849-859

focus only on CEO's as it is the most homogenous of executive roles and does not require us to assume that executives with … find any association between CEO pay and gender using both the total sample and a sample matched using propensity scores to … ceiling” to the level of CEO are remunerated at similar levels to their male counterparts. …

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A review of the gender effect on pay, corporate performance and entry into top management

Mohan, Nancy - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 34 (2014) C, pp. 41-51

The frequency of women occupying the CEO office has increased but remains at low levels, less than 5% for the Fortune … management positions. Other research examines potential compensation differences. More recently, some researchers show that CEO …

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The effects and the mechanisms of board gender diversity : evidence from financial manipulation

Wahid, Aida Sijamic - 2017

This study examines the impact of board gender diversity on financial misconduct. The findings suggest firms with gender-diverse boards commit fewer financial reporting mistakes and engage in less fraud. The findings hold after accounting for the potentially endogenous nature of board...

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Does Gender Matter in the Boardroom? Evidence from the Market Reaction to Mandatory New Director Announcements

Adams, Renee B. - 2012

Around the world, policy makers are mandating gender quotas for boards of publicly-traded firms. Since the benefits and costs of these quotas accrue to shareholders, it is important to see how they react to the appointment of female directors. Using data on mandatory announcements of new...

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Does Boardroom Gender Diversity Matter? Evidence from a Transitional Economy

Nguyen, Tuan - 2014

This research investigates the relationship between board gender diversity and firm financial performance in the context of a transitional economy characterised by an underdeveloped corporate governance system. Using a sample of 120 publicly listed companies in Vietnam covering a 4-year period...

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Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud

Cumming, Douglas J. - 2014

We formulate theory and set forth a first-ever empirical analysis of the impact of board of director gender diversity on the broad spectrum of securities fraud, generating three main insights. First, the examined data show strong evidence consistent with the view that the importance of women on...

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Does Gender Diversity on Board Lead to Risk-Taking? Empirical Evidence from Tunisia

Loukil, Nadia - 2013

It is well documented in economic, psychological and social literatures and the few recent studies in finance that women are more risk averse than men. The current study investigates the influence of board gender-diversity in firm risk taking in a developing market.Using a sample of Tunisian...

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Does Board Gender Diversity Influence Firm Profitability? A Control Function Approach

Dang, Rey - 2020

We investigate the relation between board gender diversity and firm profitability using the control function (CF) approach recently suggested by Wooldridge (2015). The CF method takes account of the problem of endogenous explanatory variables that have potential to bias the results. Using a...

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