In this article, we conduct a longitudinal study of women’s progress on French corporate boards of directors. We particularly focus on the extent to which women directors have circumvented the glass ceiling. Using a sample of SBF 120 companies over a 10-year period from 2000 to 2009, our...

The under-representation of female directors in the boardroom where corporate strategic decisions are made has recently become not only an ethical business case but also a public pressure to improve this gender imbalance. While there is some practical evidence to suggest that gender-diverse...

La présence des femmes dans les Conseils d'administration est devenu un enjeu organisationnel majeur du fait des répercussions qui en découlent, à la fois sur le fonctionnement des entreprises (enjeux en termes de diversité) et sur l'ensemble de la société (briser le "plafond de verre")....

Our research aims at exploring individual’s characteristics of women on Boards in the French context. In the first part of our paper, we discuss the different theoretical frameworks which supported the business case of gender diversity on Boards of Directors and expose our hypothesis regarding...

This paper aims to explore the links between Brent crude oil index and stock markets index in OECD countries. We estimate time-varying conditional correlation relationships among these variables by employing a Multivariate Fractionally Integrated Asymmetric, Power ARCH model with dynamic...

In this paper we test for the existence of equity market contagion originating from the United States to OECD markets over the period from 01/01/1990 to 01/11/2010 characterized by several episodes of financial crises. Our empirical analysis relies on the use of an ICAPM model which has three...

This paper tests the time-varying degree of South Asian market integration using a conditional version of the International Capital Asset Pricing Model ICAPM, and applying a GDC-GARCH. The use of the GDC-GARCH technique allows us to, first, describe the timevarying stochastic conditional...

This paper analyzes the time-varying integration of the Greek stock market from a regional