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Which Executive Characteristics Create Value in Banking? Evidence from Appointment Announcements
Nguyen, Duc Duy - 2014
age, education and prior work experience create shareholder wealth while gender is not linked to measurable value effects …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Peer Effects Across Firms : Evidence from Security Analysts
Cespedes, Jacelly - 2017
We assess the magnitude and mechanisms of workers' productivity spillovers by estimating the peer effects among those working in the same occupation across firms using the setting of security analysts. The empirical design exploits one feature of social networks: the existence of partially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957319
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Competitiveness of human and business in terms of stock market analysis
Hurnyak, Ihor; Pardal, Pedro; Machová, Veronika; … - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 30 (2022) 2, pp. 1-9
The competitiveness of modern human and business are inextricably linked with the work of the stock market. In some cases, easily could be detected a correlation between trends or tendencies of the stock market and the directions of transformation of human behavior. What should people and...
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Family First? Kinship Ties and Equity Prices
Parise, Gianpaolo - 2019
In this paper, we construct a novel measure of nepotism and explore its implications for firm value. We document that 35% of U.S. public firms employ relatives in top jobs. Using our measure, we show that nepotism decreases firm value: high-nepotism stocks underperform low-nepotism stocks by...
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The Fragility of Organization Capital
Boguth, Oliver - 2018
Firms with high levels of organization capital, a firm-specific production factor provided by key employees, are known to be risky and earn high stock returns. We argue that fragility of organization capital -- its sensitivity to potential disruptions -- is an independently important determinant...
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