Gambacorta, Leonardo; Pancotto, Livia; Reghezza, Alessio; … - 2022
Do female directors on banks' boards influence lending decisions toward less polluting firms? By using granular credit … register data matched with information on firm-level greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensities, we isolate credit supply shifts … and find that banks with more gender-diverse boards provide less credit to browner companies. This evidence is robust when …