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Gender diversity in the boardroom and corporate cash holdings : the moderating effect of investor protection

Wan Adibah Wan Ismail; Khairul Anuar Kamarudin; Gupta, … - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 3, pp. 1-18

This paper investigates whether gender diversity in the boardroom is associated with corporate cash holdings and whether investor protection moderates the effect of corporate board gender diversity on corporate cash holdings. Using 20,750 firm-year observations from 33 countries, our analyses...

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Diversity on Corporate Boards : Parent Banks vs. Subsidiary Banks

Nedelchev, Miroslav - 2018

The aim of the article is to analyze good practices on the diversity of bank boards in the European Union. A comparative analysis was carried out covering the subsidiary banks in Bulgaria and their parent banks in the euro area on the ground of shareholder and stakeholder theory. Good practices...

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Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Innovation : International Evidence

Griffin, Dale W. - 2019

Using a novel database of firm patents and board characteristics across 45 countries, we examine both within- and cross-country determinants of board gender diversity and its relation to corporate innovation. Boards are more likely to include women in countries with narrower gender gaps, higher...

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The Impact of Executive Board Gender Diversity on Risk-Taking in Canadian and US Banks

Gottschalk, Sylvia - 2019

This paper examines the issue of board diversity and the role of women in the finance industry. Estimation of panel data regressions for a sample of all financial institutions in Canada and the US over the period 2008-2019 identified some qualitative and quantitative factors that allowed the...

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Boards’ Gender Diversity and Firm Performance Before and after the Egyptian Revolution

Ararat, Melsa - 2018

Given the endogenous and contingent nature of firms' governance choices, it is not surprising that the results of prior studies investigating the association between board attributes and firm performance are mixed. In this paper, we exploit the presence of an exogenous shock represented in the...

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Congress Characteristics, Diversity and Stock Market Outcomes

Bonaparte, Yosef - 2021

We show that key congress characteristics influence stock market outcomes, and under-diversified congress depresses the performance and upsurge the volatility in the stock market. Our key hypotheses is that congress background influences type, quantity and quality of bills passed, and hence...

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Gender Diversity in the Boardroom. Context and Spanish Case

Giovinco, Angela - 2015

In the wake of the 2008 economic financial crisis, several corporate governance issues have became more relevant in the daily corporate life, among them Gender Diversity. Institutional investors, due to the critical environment began to scrupulously analyze the companies, in which they invest,...

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Managing bank liquidity hoarding during uncertain times : the role of board gender diversity

Davydov, Denis; Garanina, Tatiana; Weill, Laurent - 2022

This paper examines the effect of executive board gender diversity on the relationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world, has a high share of women on bank executive boards....

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Board Diversity Matters : An Empirical Assessment of Community Lending at Federal Reserve-Regulated Banks

Feinstein, Brian D.; Conti-Brown, Peter; Nygaard, Kaleb - 2022

This working paper shows that the increased presence of minority directors on the twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks — the quasi-governmental entities responsible for evaluating many commercial banks’ lending to underserved communities — is associated with greater lending to these...

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Why Do Politicians Intervene in Accounting Regulation? The Role of Ideology and Special Interests

Bischof, Jannis - 2020

perception of these consequences varies with a politician's ideology. Therefore, if accounting rules produce those consequences …, ideology plausibly spills over and explains a politician's stance on the technical accounting issue, beyond special interest … to disentangle the role of ideology from special interest pressure. In both debates, ideology explains politicians …

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