Are gender-balanced boards more risk averse?

Bernt Arne Ødegaard,
University of Stavanger

B. Espen Eckbo,
Tuck School of Business

This is the homepage for the research project Are gender-balanced boards more risk averse? The project is currently starting up.

Summary

Short summaries of the planned project

Background

Members of the project team has already published a number of papers relevant as background for this project.

Bernt Arne Ødegaard and B. Espen Eckbo, Director informativeness following board gender-balancing: Evidence from insider trading Journal of Corporate Finance 2025
B Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard and Karin S Thorburn, Valuation effects of {N}orway's board gender-quota law revisited Management Science 2022
B Espen Eckbo, Knut Nygaard and Karin S Thorburn, Does Mandatory Board Gender-Balancing Reduce Firm Value? Harvard Business Law Review 2022
Bernt Arne Ødegaard and B. Espen Eckbo Evaluering av aktiv fondsforvaltning Praktisk Økonomi og Finans 2015