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Gender Board Diversity and the Cost of Bank Loans
Karavitis, Panagiotis - 2020
We examine the relationship between female board representation and the cost of lending, using a dataset that contains 13,714 loans originated by 386 banks matched with 2,432 non-financial firms over the period 1999 to 2013. We find that firms with female directors command lower loan spreads. In...
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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 …
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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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Board Diversity in Banks
Nedelchev, Miroslav - 2018
The purpose of paper is to explore the diversity of bank boards as an innovative tool to reduce the effects of the …
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Women as ‘Gold Dust’ : Gender Diversity in Top Boards and the Performance of Italian Banks
Del Prete, Silvia - 2015
bank boardrooms. Using a unique dataset on Italian banks over the period 1995-2010, this paper investigates the effects of … gender diversity in boards on bank riskiness and economic performance. Taking account of omitted variables and reverse …
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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 Impact of Genetic Diversity of Executive Board Directors on Corporate Misconduct : Evidence from US Banks
Thornton, John; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2021
We examine the link between the genetic diversities of executive board members and bank financial misconduct. The … for bank specific variables, including other board characteristics, and to the use of instrumental variables …
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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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