This paper enquires whether institutional investors have specific preferences on the composition of the board of directors in Latin American firms they hold shares in. The result show that preferences vary significantly in terms of the type of institutional investor. The econometric results...

America's corporate boards are insufficiently diverse. Too few women and ethnic minorities are at the table. California's SB 826 seeks to remedy this situation by imposing penalties on publicly traded corporations with headquarters in California, regardless of where they are chartered, if their...

As the benefits of gender equality for governance become more apparent,boardroom diversity initiatives abound. At the same time, institutionalinvestors play an increasingly central role in the corporate world. ThisArticle takes a novel approach to achieve this necessary change.Institutional...