Renée Adams

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Renée B. Adams is an American mathematician and economist . She is Professor of Finance at the Australian School of Business (ASB) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Adams is also the Director of Women in the Leadership Network at UNSW Business School, a partner in the LSE Financial Markets Group, a leading European center for political research in financial markets. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research and a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute . From 2010, Adams was director of the Australian financial research network FIRN, a network of sixteen Australian universities that u. a. Coordinated Australia's premier annual financial conference and an elite doctoral program in Australia.

Her research focus is on the organization of corporate boards . Adams publications deal with the flow of information between executives and the board of directors , gender diversity in boards, governance problems in banks, group decisions in boards and the governance of central banks . In particular, her work on gender diversity received extensive media coverage and was e.g. B. regularly in financial journals such as Financial Times and The Economist u. a. as well as in Germany z. B. Received in Handelsblatt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

In 2012, Adams founded the FEW ( english The Financial Economics Women Network , economists network ' ), a supporting, developing and lobby group for academics in finance and economics. In 2015 she founded AFFECT, the “Academic Female Finance Committee” of the American Finance Association .

Career

Renée B. Adams graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a B.Sc. with The Top Mathematics Graduate Award . In 1993, she received an M.Sc. from Stanford University. in mathematics and received her PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001 with Gary Becker , Canice Prendergast, Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales .

From October 1999 to July 2003 she worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York . From December 2001 to July 2003 she was visiting scholar at the Stern School of Business and from June to September 2005 at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo . From July 2003 to December 2005 Adams was assistant professor and from December 2005 "Associate Professor" at the Stockholm School of Economics , and from September 2005 to July 2006 visiting scholar at Stockholm Institute for Financial Research. In March 2006, she was appointed Professor of Finance at UQ Business School, University of Queensland . Since December 2011 she has been Professor of Finance at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Women on boards: The superheroes of tomorrow? In: Leadership Quarterly , 2016 vol. 27, pp. 371-386, doi : 10.1016 / j.leaqua.2015.11.001
  • with T. Kirchmaier: Women on boards in finance and STEM industries In: American Economic Review , 2016, vol. 106, pp. 277-281, doi : 10.1257 / aer.p20161034
  • with D. Ferreira: Regulatory Pressure and Bank Directors' Incentives to Attend Board Meetings In: International Review of Finance 2012, vol. 12, pp. 227-248, doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-2443.2012.01149.x
  • with M. Giannetti: Is Pay a Matter of Values? In: International Review of Finance , 2012, vol. 12, pp. 133-173, doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-2443.2012.01155.x
  • Foreword to Special Issue: Governance, Policy and the Crisis In: International Review of Finance , 2012 vol. 12, pp. 1–5, doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-2443.2012.01150.x
  • Governance and the Financial Crisis In: International Review of Finance , 2012 vol. 12, pp. 7-38, doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-2443.2011.01147.x
  • with P. Funk: Beyond the glass ceiling: Does gender matter? In: Management Science , 2012 vol. 58, pp. 219-235, doi : 10.1287 / mnsc.1110.1452
  • with AN. Licht, L. Sagiv: Shareholders and stakeholders: How do directors decide? In: Strategic Management Journal , 2012 vol. 32, pp. 1331-1355, doi : 10.1002 / smj.940
  • with BE. Hermalin, MS. Weisbach: The role of boards of directors in corporate governance: A conceptual framework and survey In: Journal of Economic Literature , 2010 vol. 48, pp. 58-107, doi : 10.1257 / jel.48.1.58
  • with D. Ferreira: Moderation in Groups: Evidence from Betting on Ice Break-ups in Alaska In: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES , 2010 vol. 77, pp. 882-913, doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-937X.2009.00594.x
  • with D. Ferreira D, 2009, 'Strong managers, weak boards? In: CESifo Economic Studies, vol. 55, pp. 482-514, doi : 10.1093 / cesifo / ifp023
  • with D. Ferreira D, 2009, 'Women in the boardroom and their impact on governance and performance' Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 94, pp. 291-309, doi : 10.1016 / j.jfineco.2008.10.007
  • with H. Almeida, D. Ferreira: Understanding the relationship between founder-CEOs and firm performance In: JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL FINANCE , 2009 vol. 16, pp. 136–150, doi : 10.1016 / j.jempfin.2008.05.002
  • with D. Ferreira: Do director's perform for pay? In: Journal of Accounting and Economics , 2008 vol. 46, pp. 154-171, doi : 10.1016 / j.jacceco.2008.06.002
  • with D. Ferreira: One share-one vote: The empirical evidence In: REVIEW OF FINANCE , 2008 vol. 12, pp. 51-91, doi : 10.1093 / rof / rfn003
  • with D. Ferreira: A theory of friendly boards In: JOURNAL OF FINANCE , 2007 vol. 62, pp. 217-250, doi : 10.1111 / j.1540-6261.2007.01206.x
  • with JAC Santos: Identifying the effect of managerial control on firm performance In: JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS , 2006 vol. 41, pp. 55-85, doi : 10.1016 / j.jacceco.2005.08.001
  • with H. Almeida, D. Ferreira: Powerful CEOs and their impact on corporate performance In: REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES , 2005 vol. 18, pp. 1403-1432, doi : 10.1093 / rfs / hhi030

Literature reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Harford: Why diversity pays . In: Financial Times , August 9, 2013
  2. ^ Andrew Hill: Keep this research away from the diversity dinosaurs . In: Financial Times , August 6, 2009
  3. ↑ Megan Murphy: Doubt cast on women in boardroom .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Financial Times , August 7, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ft.com  
  4. ↑ Lucy Kellaway: The wonders worked by womanhood . In: Financial Times , May 29, 2011
  5. ^ Anthony Goodman: Found: a performance-enhancing drug for boards . In: Financial Times , September 1, 2009
  6. ^ Richard Milne: Jury's out over taking women on board . In: Financial Times , October 26, 2009
  7. ↑ Sex in the boardroom . In: The Economist , June 4, 2015
  8. ^ Skirting the issue . In: The Economist , March 11, 2010
  9. ↑ Sex in the boardroom . In: The Economist , June 4, 2015
  10. ↑ Olaf Storbeck: The true power of the female leadership style . In: Handelsblatt , February 28, 2011
  11. ↑ Melanie Amann, Nadine Oberhuber: What women want - and can . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 15, 2012
  12. ↑ Nadine Bös: Promote women - polish the balance sheet! . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 11, 2016
  13. ↑ Emerald Citation of Excellence Award 2011 . In: Emerald Group Publishing
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Renee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adams, Renée B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century