Gender diversity at the top of corporations has become a more and more ubiquitous concern in recent years. Many European countries have introduced some board quotas for the underrepresented gender in their regulation. Alexandra Fedorets and Anna Gibert study the case of gender quotas by gathering data of the largest 1,128 firms around the time Germany announced an introduction of a gender quota on corporate boards.
Online marketing tools can give firms the opportunity to gain visibility but what impact do they have on competitiveness and as a result, the consumer?
Crowdfunding campaigns display their funding progress in real-time, but is that wise? And how does this affect entrepreneurs’ pricing and goal choices and the welfare that results?
Renjie Bao, Jan De Loecker, and Jan Eeckhout build and estimate a structural model that decomposes the origins of manager pay into those that are due to market power and those due to firm size.
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