In January 2020, Goldman Sachs announced that it would no longer underwrite the IPOs of firms with all-male boards, stating that gender-diverse board...
This paper uses a large survey of directors to investigate variation in directors' dual roles as advisors and monitors of management. I examine whether...
The paper reports the findings of a multi-jurisdictional study on companies? reporting of diversity practices at board level and below. It involved a...
Deciding between mandatory and/or default rules (or as they are also called: eligible law,enabling rules, optional rules, legal menus, rules allowing...
We study the role of facial appearance in corporate director (re-)elections by means of director photographs published in annual reports. We find that...
We analyze the relation between insider trading and the networks of executive and non-executive directors in UK listed companies. While most existing...
We develop a dynamic model of board decision-making akin to dynamic voting models in the political economy literature. We show a board could retain a...
The lack of board diversity across gender and race has been one of the most controversial topics in corporate board governance in recent years. Given the...