Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud
66 Pages Posted: 24 Jul 2014
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Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud
Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud
Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud
Date Written: July 24, 2014
Abstract
We formulate theory and set forth a first-ever empirical analysis of the impact of board of director gender diversity on the broad spectrum of securities fraud, generating three main insights. First, the examined data show strong evidence consistent with the view that the importance of women on boards in mitigating securities fraud lies in the mechanism of diversity. Second, we show that the market response to fraud from a more gender-diverse board is significantly less pronounced. Third, we show that women are more effective in mitigating both the presence and severity of fraud in male-dominated industries, which again supports the notion of diversity. All our findings are robust to controls for endogeneity and propensity score matching, among other robustness checks.
Keywords: corporate governance; ethical sensitivity; fraud; gender diversity; risk aversion
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