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

linkages among gender diversity, independency and intangibles. The literature on corporate governance has mainly focused on the … level of board independency and gender diversity give emphasis to the intangibles …

We are the first to investigate the effect of board gender diversity on default risk across countries, largely focusing … on various aspects of institutional setting at country-level. Intuitively, board gender diversity is likely to influence … find that the negative effect of board gender diversity on default risk is more pronounced in countries with strong …

This paper focuses on the impact of board gender diversity on firm performance. Using a sample of 880 listed firms in … 10 developed countries covering a nine year period, we find that gender diversity has a negative effect on firm market …