Results 91 to 100 of about 7,428,000 (367)
What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Media Attention to Climate Change and Investor Flows in US Equity Mutual Funds
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how climate‐related news influences mutual fund investor behaviour in the United States. Although prior research has documented the financial relevance of climate risks, little is known about how media attention to climate change shapes capital allocation across mutual funds.
Laura Andreu +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Efficient versus inefficient hedging strategies in the presence of financial and longevity (value at) risk [PDF]
, 2013 This paper provides a closed-form Value-at-Risk (VaR) for the net exposure of an annuity provider, taking into account both mortality and interest-rate risk, on both assets and liabilities.
Regis, Luca, Luciano, Elisa
core +1 more source
Investor Perception of ESG in Earnings Calls
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the communicator's role and the framing of ESG statements affect investor capital allocation in the context of earnings calls. Based on a virtual asset market experiment, the analysis identifies that the assurance and reinforcement of ESG messages have a positive effect of up to 8% on capital allocation, with especially
Felix Bachner
wiley +1 more source
Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015 The appropriate use of hedging in scientific discourse is a vital skill for wri- ters presenting their knowledge in an academic discourse community and much work has therefore been done on this relevant feature, especially on its use in the rhetoric of ...
Sonia Oliver del Olmo
doaj
Credit Spreads and Equity Volatility during Periods of Financial Turmoil
Applied Finance Letters, 2014 We present a joint analysis of the term structure of credit default swap (CDS) spreads and the implied volatility surface for the United States and five European countries from 2007– 2012, a sample period covering both the Global Financial Crisis (GFC ...
Katrin Gottschalk
doaj +1 more source
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Green Ambiguity Shapes Sustainable Investing
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green Exchange‐Traded Funds (ETFs) have experienced strong growth in recent years, reflecting increasing investor attention toward sustainability. However, these funds rely on a wide range of environmental metrics that are often weakly aligned, raising concerns about the meaning of greenness in sustainable investing.
Rita Laura D'Ecclesia +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Futures for farmers: hedging participation and the Mexican corn scheme [PDF]
, 2005 Administered commodity price schemes in developing countries have proved ineffective in raising farmers’ incomes and price stabilisation through futures markets is increasingly advocated as the alternative policy objective. A potential difficulty is that
Snowden, P N +3 more
core +1 more source