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The effects of board gender diversity on a firm's risk strategies

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  • Linda H. Chen
  • Jeffrey Gramlich
  • Kimberly A. Houser

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We study whether board gender diversity (BGD) affects corporate risk strategies. Specifically, we investigate the association between BGD and firms’ reputation risk and financial risk. Using S&P data from 1997 to 2013, we find that BGD is negatively associated with tax avoidance, suggesting firms with gender‐diverse boards are more cautious about potential reputation risks associated with aggressive tax strategies. However, we find that BGD is positively associated with firms’ financial risk. The combined findings illustrate that BGD aligns a firm's risk exposure closer to risk‐neutral shareholders’ preferences by reducing reputation risk exposure while enabling necessary financial risk exposure.

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  • Linda H. Chen & Jeffrey Gramlich & Kimberly A. Houser, 2019. "The effects of board gender diversity on a firm's risk strategies," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 59(2), pages 991-1031, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:59:y:2019:i:2:p:991-1031
    DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12283
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    1. Hannu Schadewitz & Jonas Spohr, 2022. "Gender diverse boards and goodwill changes: association between accounting conservatism, gender and governance," Journal of Management & Governance, Springer;Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), vol. 26(3), pages 757-779, September.
    2. Bello Lawal & Mohammed Nuhu, 2021. "Board Diversity or Tokenism: A Case for Social Inclusion and an Efficiency Model," Applied Finance and Accounting, Redfame publishing, vol. 7(1), pages 22-31, February.
    3. Ammad Ahmed & Muhammad Atif & Ernest Gyapong, 2021. "Boardroom gender diversity and CEO pay deviation: Australian evidence," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 61(2), pages 3135-3170, June.
    4. Camilla Ciappei & Simone Terzani & Andrea Bafundi & Giovanni Liberatore, 2023. "Do women empower other women? Empirical evidence of the effect of female pervasiveness on firm risk‐taking," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 63(4), pages 4157-4174, December.
    5. Sattar, Mahnoor & Biswas, Pallab Kumar & Roberts, Helen, 2022. "Board gender diversity and firm risk in UK private firms," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).

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