Board gender diversity and firm performance: evidence from Latin America

Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Iranian Firms

According to agency theory, board of directors plays an important monitoring role in reducing information asymmetry and increasing the transparency of financial statements and social responsibility. This research is concerned with examining board diversity and social responsibility of the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2011-2015. To do so, a sample of 98 firms was se...

1 Board Diversity and Firm Performance Volatility

Diverse directors may have diverse preferences over firms’ policies or even objectives. As shown by Arrow (1951), diverse individual preferences may fail to univocally aggregate in collective preferences and may consequently lead to arbitrary and volatile decisions. Using the board of directors as a laboratory, we test whether diversity leads to higher performance volatility. We show that firms...

Board Independence, Ownership Structure and Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan

The present study carried out to examine the relationship between ownership structure, board independence and firm performance of eighty listed firms at KSE for the period of 2005-2009. Performance is evaluated with the help of market based and accounting based performance measures. Marris ratio and Tobin‟s Q are used as estimators of market performance, while ROA, ROE has been used as accounti...

Liquidity and firm investment: Evidence for Latin America☆

Article history: Received 5 March 2012 Received in revised form 7 October 2012 Accepted 13 October 2012 Available online 22 October 2012 This paper explores the relationship between firms' investment and stock market liquidity. Using a panel of Latin American firms, I find evidence that a higher trading volume and a higher industry-adjusted trading volume are associated with higher firm investm...

Gender Diversity in Boardroom and Firm Financial Performance: Evidence from Hong Kong BY Cheung