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Title: | Does board gender diversity improve the informativeness of stock prices? | Authors: | Gul, FA Srinidhi, B Ng, AC |
Keywords: | Diversity Earnings quality Female director Governance Idiosyncratic volatility Transparency |
Issue Date: | 2011 | Publisher: | Elsevier Science Bv | Source: | Journal of accounting and economics, 2011, v. 51, no. 3, p. 314-338 How to cite? | Journal: | Journal of Accounting and Economics | Abstract: | We show that stock prices of firms with gender-diverse boards reflect more firm-specific information after controlling for corporate governance, earnings quality, institutional ownership and acquisition activity. Further, we show that the relationship is stronger for firms with weak corporate governance suggesting that gender-diverse boards could act as a substitute mechanism for corporate governance that would be otherwise weak. The results are robust to alternative specifications of informativeness and gender diversity and to sensitivity tests controlling for time-invariant firm characteristics and alternative measures of stock price informativeness. We also find that gender diversity improves stock price informativeness through the mechanism of increased public disclosure in large firms and by encouraging private information collection in small firms. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/30898 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jacceco.2011.01.005 |
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