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 … diminish at higher levels of gender diversity, indicating that impact of gender diversity on decreasing the likelihood of …

boards. We find that after a new gender balance law surprisingly stipulated that the firm must be liquidated unless at least … 40% of its directors are of each gender, half the firms exit to an organizational form not exposed to the law. This … response suggests that forced gender balance is costly. These costs are also firm-specific, because exit is more common when …

This article analyses the effectiveness of the different regulations promoting gender diversity on boards of directors … female directors on boards. It describes the gender diversity regulations implemented in Europe, and goes on to analyse, for … Governance Codes with recommendations on gender diversity and gender quotas, with and without sanctions, on the presence of women …

daily corporate life, among them Gender Diversity. Institutional investors, due to the critical environment began to … several aspects of the gender diversity have been analyzed and several theories have been produced by experts in this field … affect corporate value. The flow of theories can be classified in two categories. At the beginning, gender diversity was …

introduction of the law, in a difference-in-differences specifi- cation. We find that the imposition of the gender quota only … characteristics other than gender. …

related to gender diversity in corporate boards. Based on a sample of 231 general shareholders meetings that took place over a …

Gender diversity on corporate boards is a popular topic both in academic and in business publications, but the focus is …

gender equality is aligned with shareholder interests. This positive effect is not explained by increased risk-taking or …

value and operations. We use quasi-random assignment induced by rounding and find that promoting gender equality is aligned …

with the gender diversity policy increases over time and that the main determinants of non-compliance are economic …