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Do Investors React Differently to GHG Emission in Stock Pricing Across Firms? Evidence From Commonwealth African Countries Using a Novel Wavelet‐Enhanced QQR Approach

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the intricate and asymmetric relationship between corporate greenhouse gas emission disclosure and stock returns and crash risks, focusing on listed firms in six Commonwealth African countries characterized by regulatory fragility, limited investor protection, and growing climate vulnerability.
Idorenyin J. Okon, Adeolu O. Adewuyi, Simplice A. Asongu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Truth‐telling in the Australian Curriculum

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Unlike Canada and South Africa, Australia has not completed a national Truth‐telling of First Nations histories. As a consequence, the curriculum is at risk of excluding Truth‐telling, leading to indoctrination of past injustices as part of school learning.
Glenn Auld, Aleryk Fricker, A. Bryan Fricker, Jessamy Gleeson, Genée Marks, Jo Raphael, Roy Rozario, Peta J. White, Brezshia Ashcroft, Robin A. Bellingham, Alessandra D'Arbe, Brianna Damcevski, Jennie Darcy, Kim Davies, Claudia Filipic, Brandi Fox, Paul Garner, Amanda Hall, Shelley Hannigan, Amrita Kamath, Katie Lee, Eun‐ju Lee, Jing Leong, Catherine Milvain, Jonathan Newchurch, Alistair Noble, Joanne O'Mara, Jacqui Peters, Monika Wagner, Yinfeng Wang   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local realities, global discourses and decolonising the curriculum in a post‐92 UK context: Academic voices on enacting decolonial curriculum change

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
wiley   +1 more source

'To bring the work to greater perfection': systematising governance in the Church of Scotland, 1696–1800 [PDF]

, 2014
Following the confirmation of Presbyterian government in the Church of Scotland in 1690, a number of attempts were made to codify the governance practices that were to be followed in the various ruling bodies of the church.
Alistair Mutch, McPherson J. M., Mutch A., Snell K., Stephen J.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa, Sean E. H. Pang, Natalie J. Briscoe, Antoine Guisan, Roberto Salguero-Gómez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law, Finance and Investment: does legal origin matter? [PDF]

This paper assesses if legal origin explains domestic, foreign, private and public investments through financial intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size.
Simplice A., Asongu
core   +1 more source

The global regime of language recognition [PDF]

, 2012
There is no universally accepted working linguistic definition of a language; the distinction between a dialect and a language is a political question.
Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
core   +2 more sources

Tracing the origins and evolution of nymphalid butterflies (Lepidoptera) in the Atlantic Forest

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding the relative roles of diversification and dispersal is key to explaining large‐scale biogeographical patterns. Although both processes are known to shape biodiversity, their relative contributions remain understudied for many organisms. Here, we examine how these processes have jointly contributed to the exceptional diversity and endemism
Mar Repullés, Nicolas Chazot, Leidys Murillo‐ Ramos, Marianne Espeland, Karina Lucas Silva‐ Brandão, Alexandre Antonelli, André Victor Lucci Freitas, Pável Matos‐Maraví   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law and finance in Africa [PDF]

This paper assesses how legal-origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It uses data collected after pioneering works on the law-finance nexus to assess hypotheses resulting there-from in the context of ...
Simplice A., Asongu
core   +1 more source

American Economic Development, Managerial Corporate Capitalism, and the Institutional Foundations of the Modern Income Tax [PDF]

, 2010
Mehrotra examines the factors contributing to the introduction of the corporate income tax in 1909 and of the individual income tax in 1913. According to the conventional wisdom, these taxes were the products of politics, political institutions, and ...
Mehrotra, Ajay K.
core   +2 more sources