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Does National Culture Drive the Value Relevance of Nonfinancial Disclosure?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to investigate the association between national culture and the value relevance of nonfinancial disclosure provided by listed firms in Germany, Spain, France, and Italy from 2018 to 2023. The results of Hierarchical Linear Model regressions show that, in countries where the national culture is characterized by greater ...
Raffaela Casciello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide

open access: yes, 2015
An increase in the household debt to GDP ratio predicts lower GDP growth and higher unemployment in the medium run for an unbalanced panel of 30 countries from 1960 to 2012.
Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, Emil Verner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Environmental Violation and Cost of Equity Capital—Evidence From Europe

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the association between environmental violations and the cost of equity capital. We posit that firms that breach environmental compliance introduce firm‐specific risks and, consequently, elevate the costs associated with equity capital.
Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan, Yimei Man
wiley   +1 more source

Does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth? A critique of Reinhart and Rogoff

open access: yes, 2014
Herndon, Ash and Pollin replicate Reinhart and Rogoff and find that coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics lead to serious errors that inaccurately represent the relationship between ...
Thomas C. Herndon, M. Ash, R. Pollin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Corporate Governance Mechanisms Help to Reduce Carbon Emissions? Some Empirical Evidence on Listed Companies in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. In this paper, we analyze the role of firms in mitigating climate change through their model of corporate governance. We examine the impact of key organizational control and incentive mechanisms on firms' carbon emission intensity.
Cécile Cezanne   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Persistence in the Private Debt-to-GDP Ratio: Evidence from 43 OECD Countries [PDF]

open access: green, 2021
Guglielmo Maria Caporale   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Debt management evaluation through Support Vector Machines: on the example of Italy and Greece

open access: yes, 2020
The focus of this research paper is on sovereign debt management evaluation. During the first decade of the 21st century, the PIIGS countries in the EU28 were the main generator of risks in in the public finance sector, thus creating a threat for cross ...
A. Zahariev   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Partners in Austerity: Jamaica, the United States and the International Monetary Fund [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper looks at Jamaica's ongoing relationship with the International Monetary Fund and multilateral development banks, its recent economic performance and the impact on development of a persistently high debt burden.
Jake Johnston
core  

Fundamentals Models Versus Random Walk: Evidence From an Emerging Economy

open access: yesJournal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the predictive power of fundamentals versus random walk models for horizons from 1 to 24 months in an emerging market. Specifically, we investigate what fundamentals models outperform random walk during periods of appreciation and depreciation of the exchange rate.
Helder Ferreira de Mendonça   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of technological innovations on financial deepening: Implications for SME financing in Africa

open access: yesAfrican Development Review, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 429-442, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper examines whether technological innovations such as information and communication technology infrastructure, mobile phone subscriptions, secure internet servers and the number of automated teller machines and bank branches increased financial deepening in 43 African countries for the period 2010–2019.
Bahati Sanga, Meshach Aziakpono
wiley   +1 more source

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