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    Women in the boardroom and fraud: Evidence from Australia

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    Capezio, A.
    Mavisakalyan, Astghik
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Capezio, A. and Mavisakalyan, A. 2016. Women in the boardroom and fraud: Evidence from Australia. Australian Journal of Management. 41 (4): pp. 719-734.
    Source Title
    Australian Journal of Management
    DOI
    10.1177/0312896215579463
    ISSN
    0312-8962
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4635
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    We examine the relationship between women’s representation on corporate boards and fraud. Drawing on a discussion of existing studies, we hypothesize that increasing women’s representation on boards can help mitigate fraud. We provide validation to our conjecture through an empirical analysis of 128 publicly listed companies in Australia. We show that the increase in women’s representation on company boards is associated with a decreased probability of fraud. We demonstrate the consistency of this result across different robustness checks. We believe that our findings could be of interest to policy makers interested in enhancing board governance and monitoring.

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