Recent years have seen increased interest in the effect of female board members on firm performance. Using event studies and regression analyses, the authors of this paper demonstrate that there is little evidence that female board representation affects firm performance.

This paper exploits the substantial and exogenously determined changes to electoral boundaries that occurred between the 1983 and 1984 elections in Australia. This context allows examination of whether political parties redistribute discretionary resources towards marginal districts, or to safe districts so as to ‘reward the base’.

This study estimates the impact of foreign demand for Australian residential real estate on property prices.