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Independent women : shareholders in the age of the suffragettes
Acheson, Graeme G.; Campbell, Gareth; Gallagher, Áine; … - 2018
The early twentieth century saw an increasingly vocal movement which campaigned for women to be able to exercise their political voices independently of men. This coincided with more women participating directly in the stock market. In this paper we analyse whether these female shareholders...
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The Effect of Gender on Stock Price Reaction to the Appointment of Directors : The Case of the FTSE 100
Lucey, Brian M. - 2011
price reaction to the appointment of Directors suggests that gender is not an issue in the appointment of Non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128924
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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 …. Using data on mandatory announcements of new director appointments, we find that the gender of directors appears to be value … workplace practices in place to promote workplace equality appear to benefit the most from boardroom gender diversity. This …
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Is Monetary Policy Gender Neutral? Evidence from the Stock Market
Forti Grazzini, Caterina - 2020
the stock market decreases. On the other hand, monetary policy is gender-neutral for stock market participants: there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843904
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Discrimination in the Stock Market : Board Gender and Stock Performance
Sanford, Anthony - 2019
returns. The goal is to determine whether the gender of an incoming board member is perceived differently by investors …. Scholarly findings on gender and leadership have been mixed at best. Overall, the evidence seems to indicate that women and men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889129
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Equity Market Reaction to Pay Dispersion and Shareholders’ Prosocial Preferences
Pan, Yihui - 2020
Do equity investors care about pay dispersion and income inequality? We address this question by examining equity markets' reaction and investors' portfolio rebalancing in response to the first-time disclosure by U.S. public companies of the ratio of CEO to median worker pay in 2018. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843823
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Stock Market Wealth and Worker Output
Li, Teng - 2020
This paper uses individual-level data linking stock investments to work performance to examine how changes in stock market wealth affect worker output. Exploiting large return variations over time and across investors, we document a 10% increase in monthly stock investment returns is associated...
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Insider trading, gender diversity within the board room, CEO pay gap, and stock price crash risk
Viet Phuong Le; Nguyen, Ann-Ngoc; Gregoriou, Andros - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 29 (2024) 2, pp. 1378-1400
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Gender Tenure Gap and Equity Prices
Bae, Jaewan; Kang, Jangkoo - 2022
This study analyzes the effects of the gender (employee-) tenure gap (GTG) on firm value and stock returns. We …
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Earnings Dispersion and the Stock Market Reaction to Aggregate Earnings News
Subasi, Musa - 2011
Using monthly and quarterly cross-sectional dispersion in firm level earnings news as a proxy for investor uncertainty about the implications of current aggregate earnings for future discount rates, I find that higher investor uncertainty leads to a lower stock market reaction to aggregate...
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