Renée Adams

Refereed publications

• Bank Board Structure and Performance: Evidence for Large Bank Holding Companies, 2012, with Hamid Mehran, Journal of Financial Intermediation 21, pp. 243-267
• Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Does Gender Matter? 2012, with Patricia Funk, Management Science, 58 (2), pp. 219-235-lead article
• Does Regulatory Pressure Provide Sufficient Incentives for Bank Directors? Evidence from Directors' Attendance Records, 2011, with Daniel Ferreira, forthcoming International Review of Finance, special issue on bank governance and the financial crisis
• Governance and the Financial Crisis, 2011, forthcoming I, special issue on bank governance and the financial crisis
• Shareholders and Stakeholders: How Do Directors Decide? 2010, with Amir Licht and Lilach Sagiv, forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal
• Moderation in Groups: Evidence from Betting on Ice Break-ups in Alaska, 2010, with Daniel Ferreira, Review of Economic Studies, 77 (3) 882-913
• The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey, 2010, with Ben Hermalin and Mike Weisbach, Journal of Economic Literature, 48:1, 58-107
• Strong Managers, Weak Boards? 2009, with Daniel Ferreira, CESifo Economic Studies special issue on Executive Pay, Volume 55, Number 3-4, 482-514
• Women in the Boardroom and their Impact on Governance and Performance, with Daniel Ferreira, Journal of Financial Economics, December 2009, 94(2), 291-309
• Understanding the Relationship between Founder-CEOs and Firm Performance, with Heitor Almeida and Daniel Ferreira, Journal of Empirical Finance, 2009, vol. 16, issue 1, pages 136-150
• Do Directors Perform for Pay? with Daniel Ferreira, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2008, 46(1), pp. 154-171
• One-share, One-vote: the Empirical Evidence, with Daniel Ferreira, Review of Finance, 2008, 12(1), pp. 51-91
• A Theory of Friendly Boards, with Daniel Ferreira, Journal of Finance, 2007, 62(1), pp. 217-250, Emerald Insight Citation of Excellence
• Identifying the Effect of Managerial Control on Firm Performance, with Joao Santos, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2006, 41(1), pp. 55-85
• Powerful CEOs and their Impact on Corporate Performance, with Heitor Almeida and Daniel Ferreira, Review of Financial Studies, 2005, 18(4), pp. 1403-1432
• Is Corporate Governance Different for Bank Holding Companies? with Hamid Mehran, Economic Policy Review, 2003, 9(1), pp. 123-142

Selected working papers

• Is pay a matter of values? 2011, with Mariassunta Giannetti
• Asking Directors About Their Dual Roles, 2009
• Does gender matter in the boardroom? Evidence from mandatory new director appointments, 2011 with John Nowland and Steve Gray
• Who Directs the Fed? 2011

Research in progress

• Board Dynamics
• What do boards do?
• Intelligence in the executive suite
• Women in the boardroom: A Global Perspective

Book chapters

• Governance at Banking Institutions, Chapter 23 in Corporate Governance, R. Anderson and H.K. Baker (eds.), Wiley & Sons 2010
• Corporate Governance to appear in the Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization, Gerard Caprio (ed.), Thorsten Beck, Charles Calomiris, Takeo Hoshi, Peter Montiel, and Garry Schinasi (assoc. Eds.), Elsevier

Non-refereed publications

• "Board Structure, Banking Firm Performance and the Bank Holding Company Organizational Form," with Hamid Mehran, Proceedings of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, 2003
• "L-Systems-a discrete approach to modeling biological systems." The UCSD Journal of Undergraduate Research, 1991, 11, pp. 47-53
• "Preliminary Results of the Study of the Action of the Orthogonal Group on Tensorspace - An Excerpt." Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Undergraduate Research, 1991, 1, pp. 351-357

• Corporate governance
• Governance of financial institutions
• Corporate finance
• Economics of organizations

• ARC Discovery Grant in the amount of $200,000 with Vanitha Ragunathan, commencing 2012
• The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation Grant in the amount of SEK 1,200,000 (with Erik Berglöf and Atta Tarki): Grant for Project “Performance of Hajjis in the Bazaar,” 2005
• SNS Center for Business and Policy Studies, Sweden in the amount of SEK 1,000,000 (with Erik Berglöf): Grant for project “Board Activity and Structure,” 2004
• BSI Gamma Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland in the amount of Euro 10,000: Grant for project “The Impact of Managerial Control on Firm Performance,” 2003
• Bankforskningsinstitutet, Stockholm, Sweden: Grant for project “The Governance of Banking Firms,” 2003
• The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation Grant in the amount of SEK 400,000 (with Mariassunta Giannetti and Daniel Ferreira), 2003

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