This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...

In this paper we investigate the role that corporate boards play in an environment of highly concentrated ownership and weak institutional environment using unique data from a survey of board members in Russian firms. In firms with high ownership concentration the board of directors may be just...