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Female-led firms : performance and risk attitudes

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....

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Gender quotas on boards of directors : little evidence that gender quotas for women on boards of directors improve firm performance

Smith, Nina - 2014

Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed and often negative. Current research does not justify gender quotas on grounds of economic efficiency. Furthermore, in most...

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Managerial performance of a female-owned and home-based firm

Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Platt, Katarzyna; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2020

Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...

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Gender quotas on boards of directors : gender quotas for women on boards of directors improve female share on boards but firm performance effects are mixed

Smith, Nina - 2018

Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors by gender quotas range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance. The introduction of gender quotas in a number of countries has increased female representation on boards. Current research does not justify...

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Female managers and firm performance : evidence from the Caribbean countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021

managers in the Caribbean region. We use survey data with detailed information on gender for firms in 13 Caribbean countries …

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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia

Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019

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...

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The Performance of Female Hedge Fund Managers

Aggarwal, Rajesh K. - 2016

female portfolio manager and funds that have all female portfolio managers. Funds with all female managers perform no … idea that female managers need to perform better for their funds to survive. Yet, female-managed surviving funds have fewer … female and male managers, but that only the best performing female managers manage to survive …

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Does Assigning More Women to Managerial Positions Enhance Firm Productivity? Evidence from Sweden

Sato, Yoshihiro - 2017

We analyze whether gender composition at non-board managerial levels has any impact on firm productivity and other related outcomes in the service sector using a linked employer-employee dataset from Sweden. Exploiting within-firm variation, we apply a difference-in-differences propensity score...

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The Effect of Corporate Gender Diversity on Board and Firm Performance

Isah, Nura - 2018

Effective and qualitative corporate governance is the distinctive feature of newly emerging economy. Corporate governance has received significant attention due to global financial crisis and recent corporate failures involving multinational corporations all over the world. As the global...

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Earnings Forecasts of Female CEOs : Quality and Consequences

Francoeur, Claude; Li, Yuntian; Singer, Zvi; Zhang, Jing - 2021

This study examines the voluntary disclosure of earnings forecasts by female CEOs. We find that in the backdrop of increased pressure to perform from investors and other stakeholders, female CEOs tend to issue more earnings forecasts than male CEOs, and those forecasts are more accurate. We also...

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