NDLI: Female board appointments and firm valuation: short and long-term effects

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Author	Campbell, Kevin Minguez Vera, Antonio
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	The presence of women on boards of directors has become a high profile issue in recent years. Several studies, based largely on data from countries with Anglo-Saxon corporate governance systems, have investigated the influence of female board appointments on firm performance. This study focuses on the impact of female directors in Spain, where debate about this topic has been intense for two reasons: the recommendation in 2006 by Spain’s Unified Good Governance Code of positive discrimination in favour of female board appointments and the passing in 2007 of a Gender Equality Act by the Spanish parliament. Our paper analyses the short and long term effect of the appointment of female directors prior to these events. We use an event study to analyze the short term stock market reaction to the appointment of female directors and a multiple regression approach, using the system GMM estimation procedure, to assess the long term influence on firm value of female boardroom appointments. We find that the stock market reacts positively in the short term to the announcement of female board appointments, suggesting that investors on average believe that female directors add value. This belief appears to be confirmed by our regression results which show that female board appointments are positively associated with firm value over a sustained period. These results suggest that the legislative changes in Spain make economic sense as well as advancing the cause of women in Spanish boardrooms.
Starting Page	37
Ending Page	59
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13853457
Journal	Journal of Management and Governance
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1572963X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-06-23
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Women Board of directors Market reaction Sociology Industrial Organization Accounting/Auditing Management/Business for Professionals
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business and International Management

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