In 2002, an amendment to UK parliamentary regulations removed restrictions on the participation of members of parliament (MPs) in parliamentary proceedings related to their corporate interests. Using this amendment as a quasi-natural experiment, we demonstrate gains in firm value and...

A number of studies have found little economic impact of board gender diversity on firm performance. We return to this issue in the context of large European firms. Our contribution is twofold. First, using information on the gender of CEOs children as a source of exogenous variation in female...

This paper examines the role of information and regulatory interventions in mitigating the executive gender pay gap. We find female executives are paid about 34 per cent less compared to equivalent males from the same cohort, which falls by half over tenure within the company, but remains...