Market Risk Disclosures and Board Gender Diversity in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Firms

Khamis Hamed Al†Yahyaee, Ahmed Khamis Al†Hadi and Syed Mujahid Hussain

International Review of Finance, 2017, vol. 17, issue 4, 645-658

Abstract: We investigate the impact of board gender diversity on corporate risk reporting for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) financial firms. Recent developments and improvements of corporate governance in the GCC markets suggest that firms in the GCC have become more transparent with less information asymmetry. However, we find that the presence of female directors in the boards of financial institutions suppresses the positive association between corporate governance and market risk disclosures for the period between 2007 and 2011. These findings suggest that culture and conservatism nature of GCC societies persist in the GCC business environment. Our results are robust to alternative specifications and endogeneity tests.

Date: 2017
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