We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interac-tions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...

Women are still severely under-represented on public corporations' boards of directors in both the US and Canada, despite both jurisdictions implementing diversity disclosure regimes years ago. This paper first discusses and compares the history of corporate governance in the US and Canada...

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...