Gender Diversity and Corporate Resilience to Climate Change: Evidence from Greenfield Investments

By Ming Yan William Cheung, Bihong Huang

July 19, 2024

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Ming Yan William Cheung, and Bihong Huang. Gender Diversity and Corporate Resilience to Climate Change: Evidence from Greenfield Investments, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2024) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the impact of board gender diversity on the performance of firms whose greenfield investments are struck by natural disasters. We find that corporations with more diverse boards are more likely to earn higher net income but less likely to have negative earnings in front of natural disasters. Further analyses indicate that those corporations with more diverse boards invest less in countries vulnerable to climate change but more in countries ready to adapt for climate change. They have lower exposure to environmental policy risks and are more likely to establish dedicated committees to oversee the risks.

Subject: Climate change, Environment, Gender, Gender diversity, Natural disasters, Women

Keywords: Board gender diversity, Climate change, East Asia, Gender diversity, Global, Greenfield investment, IMF working paper WP 24/157, Natural disaster, Natural disasters, Nonfinancial firm, Time prefix, Women

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46
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Working Paper No. 2024/157
Stock No:

WPIEA2024157
ISBN:

9798400280719
ISSN:

1018-5941

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