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The importance of co-determination for gender diversity in the boardroom

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2025

This study examines the interplay of co-determination law and board gender quotas using novel board-director panel data for Norway. We present descriptive evidence suggesting that boards with employee representatives on boards of directors were more gender diverse before the gender quota....

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What do central bankers do? : evidence from the European Central Bank's Executive Board

Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2019

This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working …

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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022

This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...

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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?

Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2020

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

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Ownership concentration, monitoring and optimal board structure

Graziano, Clara (contributor); … - 2005

since it suggests that twotier boards can be a valuable option in Continental Europe where ownership structure is …

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Cracks in the boards : the opportunity cost of governance homogeneity

Maghin, Helene - 2022 - This version: June 23, 2022, first version: July 24, 2019

Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in boards of directors and supervisory boards to causally determine the impact of a change in leadership on performance. Using a novel design and data on boards, we find that firms...

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Optimal central bank design : benchmarks for the ECB

Berger, Helge (contributor) - 2006

The paper discusses key elements of optimal central bank design and applies its findings to the Eurosystem. A particular focus is on the size of monetary policy committees, the degree of centralization, and the representation of relative economic size in the voting rights of regional (or...

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How tinted are your glasses? : gender views, beliefs and recommendations in hiring

Hochleitner, Anna; Tufano, Fabio; Facchini, Giovanni; … - 2025 - This draft: March 29, 2025

- analyzing both recommendation and recruitment stages. These confirm that recommendations are gendered and impact recruitment. We … strategic behavior based on erroneous beliefs explain referees' choices. Finally, we decompose gender recruitment gaps into two …

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Betting on diversity : occupational segregation and gender stereotypes

Fischbacher, Urs; Kübler, Dorothea; Stüber, Robert - 2022

personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with …

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Does artificial intelligence help or hurt gender diversity? : evidence from two field experiments on recruitment in tech

Avery, Mallory; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2024

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment is rapidly increasing and drastically changing how people apply … to jobs and how applications are reviewed. In this paper, we use two field experiments to study how AI recruitment tools … demand. We find that the use of AI in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than …

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