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Renée Adams

Renée Adams is a Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her work focuses on information flows on boards, bank governance, group decision-making, the governance of central banks and gender diversity on and off boards.
Commentary

A Directorship at a Federal Reserve Bank is Good News for Banks, but May be Bad News for the Fed

Renée Adams
Far before the collapse of SVB, I provided systematic evidence that banks appear to benefit from their directorships on Federal Reserve Banks. The fact...
Regulation

Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation

Renée Adams
Members of Congress are inundated with an avalanche of correspondence on a daily basis. But what persuades them to heed the call? Recent research...
Academic Capture

Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance 


Renée Adams
One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from being conducted...
Covid-19

Insider Trading Data Reveals Pandemic Is a Time for Questioning, Not Answering

Renée Adams
Following news reports about executives selling shares in their corporations to avoid losses due to the pandemic, a new study takes a closer takes...
Academic Capture

Economics’ Lack of Interest in Gender Proves: the “Dismal Science” Really Is Dismal

Renée Adams
Economists are still in the dark about the role of gender. For economics to be credible, we have to recognize that our knowledge is...
Income Inequality

When It Comes to Gender Imbalances, Academia’s Ignorance Is Self-Serving

Renée Adams
The Ravina vs. Columbia case illustrates that challenging the status quo can be immensely costly. We economists should collectively think about how we can...

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