Gender diversity in the boards and the pricing of publicly traded corporate debt: Evidence from Japan

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 247-258

  Tanaka, Takanori ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

corporate governance; cost of corporate public debt; female directors; propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DEBT; GENDER RELATIONS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MARKET SYSTEM;

JAPAN;

EID: 84893298707     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603107.2013.877571     Document Type: Article

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