The Changing of the Boards: The Impact on Firm Valuation of Mandated Female Board Representation
By Kenneth R. Ahern, Amy K. Dittmar. 2012
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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies
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In Accounting
- Bert D’Espallier
- Geoffrey A. Tate
- Roy Mersland
- Jens Hagendorff
- Haithem Nagati
- S. Locke
- R. O. Strøm
- Mehdi Nekhili
In Gender Studies
- Geoffrey A. Tate
- Liu Yang
- A. Boateng
- C. Nwafor
- Sanjukta Brahma
- Haithem Nagati
- Angelica Gonzalez
- Jens Hagendorff
Citations in the corpus
- Female leadership and gender equity: Evidence from plant closure (2015, background): “Several recent studies look at the link between female leadership and corporate decisions more generally, focusing mainly on women serving on boards of directors (Adams and Ferreira, 2009; Ahern and Dittmar, 2012; Dezso and Ross, 2011; Matsa and Miller, 2011a).”
- Does Board Gender Diversity Have a Financial Impact? Evidence Using Stock Portfolio Performance (2013, methodology): “First, we follow Ahern and Dittmar (2012) and regress industry-adjusted 14 For robustness we also investigate the period prior to the ASX recommendations.”
- Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labour Market Outcomes in Norway (2014, background): “A revised version may be available directly from the author.”
- Does board gender diversity affect corporate cash holdings? (2019, neutral): “Prior studies use the percentage of female directors on the board to measure gender diversity (e.g., Adams & Ferreira, 2009; Ahern & Dittmar, 2012; Huang & Kisgen, 2013; Faccio et al., 2016).”
- Female board directorship and firm performance: What really matters? (2018, methodology): “…and advisory missions of the board. emale directors are significantly different from their male peers n terms of demographic characteristics ( Ahern and Dittmar, 2012; uigrok et al., 2007; Dang et al., 2014 ), experience and experise ( Singh et al., 2008 ), and personal traits such as risk…”
- Female leadership, performance, and governance in microfinance institutions. (2014, background): “Armendáriz and Morduch (2010) argue that female targeting and financial sustainability are perfectly compatible, since female targeting within microfinance has often been attributed to increased efficiency due to higher repayment rates among female borrowers.”
- The performance effects of gender diversity on bank boards (2018, neutral): “…(Gul et al., 2011; Campbell and Minguez-Vera, 2008; Noland et al., 2016; Kang et al., 2009; Schmid and Urban, 2016) to those that find a negative impact (Ahern and Dittmar, 2012; Adams and Ferreira, 2009), to those that find little or no impact (Farrell and Hersch, 2004; Ferrari et al., 2016).”