Female leadership and bank performance in Latin America

• Main Authors: Baselga-Pascual, Laura, Vähämaa, Emilia
• Other Authors: Finance, Vaasa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: 512 Business and Management; Corporate governance; Female leadership; Financial institutions; Latin America; KOTA2021; PREM2021_extra; 0 - Not open access; 1 - Self archived; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/565245; 1- Minst en av författarna har en utländsk affiliation; 1- Publicerad utomlands; 0- Ingen affiliation med ett företag; AoS: Financial management; accounting; and governance; SDG 5 - Gender Equality; sami
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Funding Information: We wish to thank two anonymous referees, Sadok El Ghoul, Sami Vähämaa, Iñaki Erauskin Iurrita, Jose L. González-Pernia, Iñaki Peña, Mariña Martínez-Malvar, Steven Kozlowski, Xinming Li, Angela Gallo, Jesper Haga, Min Park, Antonio Trujillo-Ponce and seminar and conference participants at Pablo de Olavide University, Hanken School of Economics, Deusto Business School, the XXIV Finance Forum, the VIII Annual Workshop of the Nordic Corporate Governance Network, the Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting and the Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meeting for valuable comments and suggestions. The financial support of Finland's Sustainable Investment Forum (Finsif), Finnish Savings Banks' Research Foundation and Deusto Business School. Part of this paper was written while L. Baselga-Pascual was visiting the University of Vaasa. Funding Information: We wish to thank two anonymous referees, Sadok El Ghoul, Sami V?h?maa, I?aki Erauskin Iurrita, Jose L. Gonz?lez-Pernia, I?aki Pe?a, Mari?a Mart?nez-Malvar, Steven Kozlowski, Xinming Li, Angela Gallo, Jesper Haga, Min Park, Antonio Trujillo-Ponce and seminar and conference participants at Pablo de Olavide University, Hanken School of Economics, Deusto Business School, the XXIV Finance Forum, the VIII Annual Workshop of the Nordic Corporate Governance Network, the Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Annual Meeting and the Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meeting for valuable comments and suggestions. The financial support of Finland's Sustainable Investment Forum (Finsif), Finnish Savings Banks' Research Foundation and Deusto Business School. Part of this paper was written while L. Baselga-Pascual was visiting the University of Vaasa. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier B.V. This paper examines the relationship between gender diversity in corporate boards and executive positions and bank risk and performance in Latin America. Our sample covers 91 individual banks during 2000–2017. Our results suggest that banks with a higher ...