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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi +2 more
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Does Price React to Fixed Price Tender Offer Share Buyback Announcement?
International Journal of Management Studies, 2006 This paper investigates stock market reactions to share buyback announcements, specifically with the fixed price tender offer mechanism. An event study methodology was used to examine stock price reaction of 30 observations involving 21 listed companies ...
Hanita Kadir Shahar +1 more
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Conducting event studies on a small stock exchange [PDF]
This paper analyses whether it is possible to perform an event study on a small stock exchange with thinly trade stocks. The main conclusion is that event studies can be performed provided that certain adjustments are made.
Olson, Dennis +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang +2 more
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The Information Contained in The Exercise of Executive Stock Options
, 2003 This paper investigates the use by insiders of private information in their decision to exercise executive stock options. It is the first to categorise the exercise of an executive stock option by the proportion of stock sold at exercise.
Mase, B, Kyriacou, K
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Predicting abnormal stock returns with a nonparametric nonlinear method [PDF]
IJCNN'01. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37222), 2002 Neural networks (NN) can be applied to the prediction of stock market trends based on information from legal insider trading. These data are available because officers of companies are required by law to submit to the Securities Exchange Commission a record of the sales and purchases of their companies' stock.
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Market Sentiment and Stock Splits
Applied Finance LettersThis study examines the impact of stock split events on abnormal returns, identifying significant effects both short-term and long-term. We find that market sentiment plays a crucial role, with abnormal returns being more pronounced during high ...
Jitka Hilliard, Haoran Zhang
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
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The effects of a change in market abuse regulation on abnormal returns and volumes: Evidence from the Amsterdam stock market [PDF]
The Market Abuse Directive came into effect on 1 October 2005. One of its purposes is to reduce illegal insider trading and leakage of information prior to official releases by increasing penalties. This paper investigates the effects of the Market Abuse
Bas ter Weel, T. Prevoo
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