Renée Adams

Renée Birgit Adams is a German American economist specialising in corporate finance and corporate governance. She is Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Education

Adams earned a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001.[1] She previously completed a Master of Science in mathematics at Stanford University in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics at the University of California, San Diego in 1991.[2]

Career

Adams began her academic career after working as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1999 to 2003.[3] After that, she held faculty positions at the Stockholm School of Economics, first as assistant professor and then associate professor. She later served as professor of finance at the University of Queensland and at UNSW Business School in Australia.[4][5]

In 2018, she joined the University of Oxford as professor of finance at Saïd Business School. She is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.[6]

Adams has held numerous visiting and distinguished visiting positions at universities and research institutions in Europe, Asia, and Australia, including Goethe University Frankfurt, Aalto University, CEIBS in Shanghai, and Kyoto University.[7]

Research

Adams' research focuses on corporate governance,[8] inequality, and gender,[9] especially in the context of the governance of financial institutions. Her work examines board structures,[10] diversity, incentives, and institutional decision processes in corporate and financial settings.

Her research has been cited in the Financial Times for showing that while companies with more women on boards often perform better, the relationship reflects correlation rather than clear causal effects, with firm-specific characteristics playing a central role.[11]

Her research has been cited in The New York Times in the context of scrutiny of Federal Reserve governance, showing that banks whose executives sit on regional Fed boards experience positive stock market reactions and fewer supervisory enforcement actions during the director's tenure.[12] Her research was also cited on many other news outets such as NPR,[13] CNN,[14] the Financial Times[15][16][17][18][19][20] and in The Economist.[21][22]

Her research has been cited over 30,000 times.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Renee Adams | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2026-02-07.
  2. ^ "Renée B Adams | Saïd Business School". www.sbs.ox.ac.uk. 2025-08-22. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
  3. ^ "Renée B Adams | Saïd Business School". www.sbs.ox.ac.uk. 2025-08-22. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
  4. ^ "Renée B Adams | Saïd Business School". www.sbs.ox.ac.uk. 2025-08-22. Retrieved 2026-02-07.
  5. ^ Kellaway, Lucy (2011). "The wonders worked by womanhood". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
  6. ^ "Renée B Adams | Saïd Business School". www.sbs.ox.ac.uk. 2025-08-22. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
  7. ^ "Prof. Dr. Renée Adams". Retrieved 2026-02-07.
  8. ^ Adams, Renée Birgit (2011-12-29). "Governance and the Financial <scp>C</scp>risis". International Review of Finance. 12 (1): 7–38. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2443.2011.01147.x. ISSN 1369-412X. Archived from the original on 2019-01-30.
  9. ^ B, Adams, Renée; Roman, Kräussl; Marco, Navone; Patrick, Verwijmeren (2021-07-16). "Gendered Prices". The Review of Financial Studies. 34 (8). doi:10.1093/rf (inactive 8 February 2026). ISSN 0893-9454. Archived from the original on 2025-12-14.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2026 (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Adams, Renée B.; Mehran, Hamid (2012-04-01). "Bank board structure and performance: Evidence for large bank holding companies". Journal of Financial Intermediation. 21 (2): 243–267. doi:10.1016/j.jfi.2011.09.002. ISSN 1042-9573.
  11. ^ Milne, Richard (2009-10-26). "Jury's out over taking women on board". Financial Times. Retrieved 2026-02-07.
  12. ^ Smialek, Jeanna (2023-05-15). "San Francisco Fed Ties to S.V.B. Chief Attracts Scrutiny to Century-Old Setup". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-02-07.
  13. ^ Herships, Sally (2020-01-24). "Gender Bias Reveals Consequences For Female Artists". NPR. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
  14. ^ Kolirin, Lianne (2025-11-18). "'The art market blows all the gender wage gap numbers out of the water:' Why we pay less for art made by women". CNN. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
  15. ^ Tim Harford, Why diversity pays, Financial Times, 9 August 2013, https://www.ft.com/content/a6bb0e20-fefa-11e2-97dc-00144feabdc0
  16. ^ Andrew Hill, Keep this research away from the diversity dinosaurs, Financial Times, 6 August 2009, https://www.ft.com/content/4f99696e-82b9-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0
  17. ^ Megan Murphy, Doubt cast on women in boardroom, Financial Times, 7 August 2009, https://www.ft.com/content/539969a6-82eb-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0
  18. ^ Lucy Kellaway, The wonders worked by womanhood, Financial Times, 29 May 2011, https://www.ft.com/content/b90258cc-88a5-11e0-afe1-00144feabdc0
  19. ^ Anthony Goodman, Found: a performance-enhancing drug for boards, Financial Times, 1 September 2009, https://www.ft.com/content/2cdfdff6-9241-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0
  20. ^ Richard Milne, Jury’s out over taking women on board, Financial Times, 26 October 2009, https://www.ft.com/content/97f5e7a8-c186-11de-b86b-00144feab49a
  21. ^ Skirting the issue, The Economist, 11 March 2010, https://www.economist.com/node/15661734
  22. ^ Sex in the boardroom, The Economist, 4 June 2015, https://www.economist.com/news/business/21653626-claims-women-manage-differently-fromor-better-thanmen-are-questionable-sex-boardroom
  23. ^ "Renee Adams". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2026-02-07.
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