value and operations, under minimal identification assumptions. We consider sharp increases in the share of women on boards … more women on corporate boards has large positive effects on Tobin´s Q and buy-and-hold returns. This result is in stark … considered firms with different pre-quota shares of women to be good counterfactuals to each other. In our data, we see that such …

and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the … share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … investigate whether the rise in female board representation was accompanied by a change in gender differences in board member …