Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Cumming, Leung & Rui on Board Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud
Douglas J. Cumming, T.Y. Leung, and Oliver M. Rui have posted Gender Diversity and Securities Fraud on SSRN with the following abstract:
We formulate theory and set forth a first-ever empirical analysis of the impact of board of director gender diversity on the broad spectrum of securities fraud, generating three main insights. First, the examined data show strong evidence consistent with the view that the importance of women on boards in mitigating securities fraud lies in the mechanism of diversity. Second, we show that the market response to fraud from a more gender-diverse board is significantly less pronounced. Third, we show that women are more effective in mitigating both the presence and severity of fraud in male-dominated industries, which again supports the notion of diversity. All our findings are robust to controls for endogeneity and propensity score matching, among other robustness checks.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/securities/2014/10/cumming-leung-rui-on-board-gender-diversity-and-securities-fraud.html