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...

Using a large sample of North American firms, from 1999 to 2016, we investigate the effect of corporate governance structures, specifically ownership, board characteristics, and executive compensation contracts on innovation intensity and output. We consider both R&D expenditures and patents as...

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...