Gender quota on corporate boards in Italy: spillover effects and financial performance
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Gender quotas; firm performance; panel data; women directors; spillover effects; female executives;All these keywords.
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- C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
- G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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