Women on board: Does boardroom gender diversity affect firm risk?

Journal of Corporate Finance

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 26-53

  Sila, Vathunyoo ^a   Gonzalez, Angelica ^a   Hagendorff, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Board of directors; Endogeneity; Equity risk; Gender diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946893764     PISSN: 09291199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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