The impact of Corporate Debt Maturity and Board’s Gender on the Stock Price Crash Risk

The present study aims to investigate the effect of debts maturity and the gender of the members of the board of directors on stock price crash risk in based on the moderating role of risk-taking by companies.  by using 117 companies in Tehran’s Stock Exchange during 2012 to 2017  and running logistic and least square regressions, the results indicated that the gender of the board’ members does not have any significant impact on the future stock price crash risk; however long-term debt positively affects the stock price crash risk. The results show that short-term debts have a significant and negative effect on the stock price crash risk.