Climate, race, and the cost of capital in the municipal bond market. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Smull E +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
Exploring the Governance–Disclosure Nexus: Board Structures and ESG Disclosures in South Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how governance structures such as board composition and board functions influence environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting among listed South African firms. This study examines 90 public listed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange between 2012 and 2022.
Henriette Elsabe Scholtz +1 more
wiley +1 more source
Measuring Sovereign Bond Spillover in Europe and the Impact of Rating News [PDF]
, 2014 Although there is by now strong evidence that sovereign risk premia are driven by a common factor, little is known about the detailed linkages between sovereign bond markets.
Claeys, Peter, Vasicek, Borek
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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
wiley +1 more source
Formation of the market of high-bond (junk bonds) in the United States in 1970–1980 years
Vìsnik Žitomirsʹkogo Deržavnogo Tehnologìčnogo Unìversitetu: Ekonomìčnì Nauki, 2017 Market of high-yield bonds (also known as «junk bonds») began to emerge in the US in the mid-1970s and was associated with the activities of «junk bond king» Michael Milken from Drexel investment company.
Moshenskyi S.Z.
doaj
PIGS or Lambs? The European Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Role of Rating Agencies [PDF]
This paper asks whether rating agencies played a passive role or were an active driving force during Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We address this by estimating relationships between sovereign debt ratings and macroeconomic and structural variables. We
Griesbach, Bjoern +2 more
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Transformation Teams Leading the Hispanic‐Serving Institutions Movement at HSI Community Colleges
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Department of Education defunded discretionary grant programs for enrollment‐based minority‐serving institutions (MSIs) on September 10, 2025, yet Hispanic‐serving institutions (HSIs) still exist and must continue to adapt to their growing population of Latine/x students.
Gina Ann Garcia +2 more
wiley +1 more source
THE BASEL COMMITTEE APPROACH TO RISK-WEIGHTS AND EXTERNAL RATINGS: WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM BOND SPREADS? [PDF]
The Basel Committee for Banking Supervision designed a system of risk weights (the so called standardised approach) to measure the riskiness of banksÂ’ loan portfolios.
Andrea Resti, Andrea Sironi
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher +2 more
wiley +1 more source