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Women on boards and bank earnings management: From zero to hero

Women on boards and bank earnings management: From zero to hero
Women on boards and bank earnings management: From zero to hero
We examine how women on boards influence bank earnings management. Using the likelihood of a board appointing women directors based on a Blau index of gender diversity in each director's total employment connections outside our sample banks for identification, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between women on boards and bank earnings management. Specifically, when there exists only a marginal number of women directors, banks are more likely to manipulate earnings. But, when the number of women directors reaches three or more, bank earnings management declines. This inverted U-shaped impact is intensified if women sit on audit or nomination committees, is moderated if women directors have higher education levels and more board experience, and is unchanged during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. Our results hold when we use alternative measures of bank earnings management, employ GMM estimations and test for alternative hypotheses for the inverted U-shaped relation.
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Fan, Yaoyao
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Jiang, Yuxiang
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Zhang, Xuezhi
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Zhou, Yue
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Fan, Yaoyao
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Jiang, Yuxiang
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Zhang, Xuezhi
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Zhou, Yue
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Fan, Yaoyao, Jiang, Yuxiang, Zhang, Xuezhi and Zhou, Yue (2019) Women on boards and bank earnings management: From zero to hero. Journal of Banking & Finance, 107, [105607]. (doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2019.105607).

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We examine how women on boards influence bank earnings management. Using the likelihood of a board appointing women directors based on a Blau index of gender diversity in each director's total employment connections outside our sample banks for identification, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between women on boards and bank earnings management. Specifically, when there exists only a marginal number of women directors, banks are more likely to manipulate earnings. But, when the number of women directors reaches three or more, bank earnings management declines. This inverted U-shaped impact is intensified if women sit on audit or nomination committees, is moderated if women directors have higher education levels and more board experience, and is unchanged during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. Our results hold when we use alternative measures of bank earnings management, employ GMM estimations and test for alternative hypotheses for the inverted U-shaped relation.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 August 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 6 August 2019
Published date: October 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 445412
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/445412
ISSN: 0378-4266
PURE UUID: e50e172d-7cb5-456a-9c50-ec9203b31811
ORCID for Yue Zhou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6544-2078

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Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:04

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Author: Yaoyao Fan
Author: Yuxiang Jiang
Author: Xuezhi Zhang
Author: Yue Zhou ORCID iD

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