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Where Women Make the Difference. The Effects of Corporate Board Gender Quotas on Firms' Performance across Europe

Comi, Simona - 2017

We study the effect of corporate board gender quotas on firm performance in Belgium, France, Italy and Spain. The … double and triple difference estimators with ex-ante matching. We find that gender quotas had either a negative or an … productivity. We then focus on Italy and offer possible explanations for the positive effect of gender quotas using detailed …

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Do Female Directors Enhance R&D Performance?

Chen, Ru; Tong, Yixing; Zhang, Feida; Zhou, Gaoguang - 2021

This study examines whether and how female directors enhance innovation performance. Based on a sample of U.S. firms, this study shows that firms with more female directors on boards present a more pronounced positive association between R&D and future firm performance (measured by earnings and...

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Women in the inner circle : gender and director networks after the fracturing of the corporate elite

Benton, Richard A. - In: Organization science : a journal of the Institute for … 32 (2021) 6, pp. 1492-1522

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Bold vision: gender diversity stuck in transition

Evans, Gary - In: Economics and business review 4 (2018) 4, pp. 97-114

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Mandating Women on Boards : Evidence from the United States

Hwang, Sunwoo - 2019

On September 30, 2018, California became the first U.S. state to set quotas for women directors on corporate boards. The passage of this law resulted in a significant decline in shareholder value for firms headquartered in California. The decline in shareholder value is directly related to the...

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Do women directors impact financial outcomes? : the Indian evidence

Kumar, Anil; Nigam, Narander Kumar; Singh, Kirtivardhan - In: Indian journal of corporate governance 13 (2020) 2, pp. 119-139

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Women on Boards in Italy

Bianco, Magda - 2012

investigate possible relationships between gender diversity and some performance and governance outcomes. While we find no …

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Pioneering Women on Boards : Pathways of the First Female Directors

Larcker, David F. - 2018

There is considerable interest in increasing the representation of women on the boards of publicly traded corporations. Currently, only 17 percent of independent directors in the United States are women. In this Closer Look, we examine the pathways that women took to become the first female...

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Is gender diversity profitable? : evidence from a global survey

Noland, Marcus; Moran, Tyler; Kotschwar, Barbara - Peterson Institute for International Economics - 2016

discriminatory attitudes toward female executives, and the availability of paternal leave. The results find no impact of board gender …

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The gender quota and female leadership : effects of the Norwegian gender quota on board chairs and CEOs

Wang, Mingzhu; Kelan, Elisabeth - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 117 (2013) 3, pp. 449-466

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