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Board Diversity in Family Firms
Jaafar, Syaiful Baharee - 2016
In order to capture and lead the market, a board should be able to understand and quickly react to the changing global market. The market is very complex and highly segmented according to factors such as gender, age and ethnicity. Therefore, having a diverse board is advantageous because the...
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CEO Compensation, Pay Inequality, and the Gender Diversity of Bank Board of Directors
Owen, Ann L. - 2018
Greater gender diversity on bank board of directors is associated with higher compensation inequality because CEOs at …
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Gender Diversity on Boards and Bank Efficiency Across Emerging Europe
Andries, Alin Marius - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of gender diversity on bank efficiency using a unique hand-collected dataset …
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The Performance Effects of Gender Diversity on Bank Boards
Owen, Ann L. - 2017
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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Gender quotas, board diversity and spillover effects : evidence from Italian banks
Del Prete, Silvia; Papini, Giulio; Tonello, Marco - 2024
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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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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Impact of board traits on organisations' dividend payout : evidence from Pakistan
Khan, Adnan Ullah - In: Financial studies 25 (2021) 2, pp. 21-36
The study aims to evaluate the impact of board traits on the organizations' dividend pay-outratio. For the purpose, quantitative research approach was being utilized. The data of non-financial companies, listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange, was scrutinized over a period of seven years, 2012-2019....
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Does Gender Diversity on Board Lead to Risk-Taking? Empirical Evidence from Tunisia
Loukil, Nadia - 2013
It is well documented in economic, psychological and social literatures and the few recent studies in finance that women are more risk averse than men. The current study investigates the influence of board gender-diversity in firm risk taking in a developing market.Using a sample of Tunisian...
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Does Board Gender Diversity Influence Firm Profitability? A Control Function Approach
Dang, Rey - 2020
We investigate the relation between board gender diversity and firm profitability using the control function (CF) approach recently suggested by Wooldridge (2015). The CF method takes account of the problem of endogenous explanatory variables that have potential to bias the results. Using a...
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