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This study analyses the efficiency of banks under board gender diversity and examines the determinants of bank … promotes bank efficiency up to a maximum of two female directors on a nine-member board, suggesting a threshold effect on bank … efficiency. Board size improves bank efficiency. Board independence is negatively related to bank efficiency. Also, we find that …
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This study investigates the impact of board composition and gender diversity on capital structure using a dataset comprising 30 publicly traded Ghanaian firms from 2008 to 2018. By employing the system generalized method of moments (GMM) as the analytical technique and controlling for firm size...
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This paper investigates whether and how differently performance of Islamic banks is affected when female directors sit in the board. We study a unique sample of 1,528 observations on 71 Islamic banks and 120 conventional banks operating in eleven Muslim countries over 2010-2017 period. We find...
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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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This paper investigates the impact of gender diversity on bank efficiency using a unique hand-collected dataset …
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We study the impact of a law, which required the increase of the proportion of women on boards of listed companies to at least one third. We look at its impact on listed banks, but also test whether it led to spillovers into non-listed banks belonging to listed groups or along other board...
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Greater gender diversity on bank board of directors is associated with higher compensation inequality because CEOs at …
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Previous literature has shown mixed results on the role of female participation on bank boards and bank performance …. Applying Instrumental Variables methods to data on approximately 90 U.S. bank holding companies over the 1999-2015 period, we … diversity on boards and various measures of bank performance: female participation has a positive effect once a threshold level …
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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. Using the news-based EPU index developed by Baker, Bloom, and Davis … significantly under-represented on bank boards in most countries, these results argue for policies to promote gender diversity of …
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