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Determinants of Foreign Currency Borrowing in the New Member States of the EU [PDF]

The paper empirically investigates the determinants of foreign currency borrowing by the private sector in the new member states of the European Union. The authors find that striking differences in patterns of foreign currency borrowing between countries
Marcel Tirpák, Christoph Rosenberg
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Asset Redeployability and Biodiversity Risk

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how asset redeployability influences a firm's exposure to biodiversity risk. Our empirical analysis provides robust evidence that firms possessing greater levels of redeployable assets exhibit significantly lower biodiversity risk.
Mostafa Monzur Hasan, Stewart Jones, Md Enayet Hossain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pathways to lung cancer diagnosis and treatment among patients in Ethiopia: A qualitative study

Scientific Reports
Late-stage presentation remains a major challenge for cancer control in low- and middle-income countries, driven by limited cancer care infrastructure, diagnostic constraints, and the lack of organized lung cancer screening programs.
Nathan Estifanos, Gudina Egata, Adamu Addissie, Mirgissa Kaba, Rahel Argaw Kebede, Aschalew Worku, Amsalu Bitew, Mathewos Assefa, Biruk Habtamu, Selam Tesfaye, Negussie Deyessa   +10 more
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Toward a Greener Future: How and When Blockchain and Digitization Drive Green Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic has significantly affected small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and poses challenges in acquiring financing. Growing green investments require transformative infrastructure and innovative green financing solutions. Blockchain technology is ideal for delivering green environmental information because it provides real‐
Sikandar Rahman, Bailing Liu, Murad Ali, Sheikh Adeel, Dana Bakry, Saleh Bajaba, Mohammad Asif Salam, Hengky Latan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Currency Borrowing by Small Firms [PDF]

We examine the firm- and country-level determinants of the currency denomination of small business loans. We first model the choice of loan currency in a framework which features a trade-off between lower cost of debt and the risk of firm-level distress ...
Steven Ongena, Martin Brown, Pinar Yesin
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Locked in Transition: Examining the Role of Paradoxical Tensions in the Transition From Industrial Cluster to Eco‐Clusters

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial clusters are central to the circular economy transition, yet how they develop into eco‐clusters and the paradoxical tensions this transformation fuels remain underexplored. Drawing on 48 in‐depth interviews and secondary data from a Turkish textile‐recycling cluster, we develop an empirically grounded model of eco‐cluster transition
Tulin Dzhengiz, Leona A. Henry, Simon M. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Practicing Strategic Financial Sustainability in Small Cultural Non‐Profits: Evidence From London Museums

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small cultural museums play an important role in sustaining local heritage, community identity and inclusive cultural participation, yet they face persistent financial and organisational constraints. This study examines how financial sustainability is achieved and maintained in three small cultural museums through a qualitative‐led mixed ...
Joseph Gerald Bourke, Albert Amanollahnejad, Javad Izadi, Dinusha Weerawardane   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real Interest Rates, Home Goods, and Optimal External Borrowing [PDF]

The paper investigates the optimal tire path of consumption and external borrowing in the dependent economy model. The small country faces given world prices and a given world real interest rates.
Rudiger Dornbusch
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Borrowing Constraints and Credit Demand [PDF]

This paper investigates the determinants of credit demand in the presence of borrowing constraints for the Chilean economy using a recently collected detailed and innovative data set, the Households Financial Survey.
Jaime Ruiz-Tagle, Francis Vella
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