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This paper examines the issue of board diversity and the role of women in the finance industry. Estimation of panel data regressions for a sample of all financial institutions in Canada and the US over the period 2008-2019 identified some qualitative and quantitative factors that allowed the...
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gender diversity decreases the probability of a bailout by at least 4%. Gender diversity is also negatively related to bank …We are the first to examine the impact of gender diversity in bank boards on the probability and size of public … gender-diverse board are less likely to receive a public bailout, and receive a lower amount of bailout funds (in the form of …
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We study how gender affects renegotiation with creditors. Using reorganization filings in the state of São Paulo in Brazil, we document that female-led debtors are 9 percentage points less likely to have their reorganization plans approved by creditors. The gender gap widens to 32 percentage...
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This paper investigates whether gender diversity in the boardroom is associated with corporate cash holdings and whether investor protection moderates the effect of corporate board gender diversity on corporate cash holdings. Using 20,750 firm-year observations from 33 countries, our analyses...
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Do corporate financial decisions made by female executives differ from that of male executives? We try to answer the question by using firm-level data. We identify few critical differences between corporations run by gender-homogeneous versus gender-heterogeneous executive boards using a unique...
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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,...
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We study the impact of a law, which required the increase of the proportion of women on boards of listed companies to at least one third. We look at its impact on listed banks, but also test whether it led to spillovers into non-listed banks belonging to listed groups or along other board...
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evidence gathered so far is however inconclusive, given that potential reverse causality may bias results. In Italy, the Law …
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We study the impact of a 2011 law on the diversity of bank boards. The law required all listed companies in Italy …
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