We examine the relation between the gender diversity on boards of corporations and the levels of information asymmetry in the stock market. Prior evidence suggests that the presence of women on director boards increases the quantity and quality of public disclosure by firms, and we therefore...

This paper investigates the impact of gender diversity on bank efficiency using a unique hand-collected dataset specific to a sample of 128 commercial banks from Central and Eastern European countries during the period 2005-2012. Robust findings that account for endogeneity indicate that the...