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Directional mobility of debt ratings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper we describe a method to decompose a well-known measure of debt ratings mobility into it’s directional components. We show, using sovereign debt ratings as an example, that this directional decomposition allows us to better understand the ...
Bhaumik, SK, Landon-Lane, JS
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Evaluating Companies' Impression Management Tactics in Mandatory Sustainability Reporting

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to investigate how a sample of Italian companies adopt impression management (IM) tactics in sustainability reports under mandatory sustainability disclosure regulations. Using longitudinal panel data analysis on sustainability reporting and firm features of 76 Italian companies over 5 years, it evaluates the influence of GRI ...
Antonio Iazzi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Task‐Based Board Diversity, Firm Performance, and the Mediating Role of Corporate Sustainability Practices

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Task‐based diversity among corporate board members, based on specific functional attributes and experiences (age, tenure, and experience) can impact the firm according to both resource‐based view and agency theory. Following this, we explore the relationship between task‐based board diversity and corporate firm performance, analyzing a sample ...
Um‐E‐Roman Fayyaz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign debt buybacks as a signal of creditworthiness [PDF]

open access: yes
To solve the puzzle of attitudes toward debt buybacks, the authors use a model that combines considerations of debt overhang with the possibility of asymmetrical information between debtor countries and their creditors.
Acharya, Sankarshan, Diwan, Ishac
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Unbearable Burden? Living and Paying Student Loans as a First-Year Teacher [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
It is widely believed that starting public school teacher salaries are too low, and student loan burdens are too high. If true, we could be facing a situation in which recent college graduates cannot afford to go into teaching because they will be unable
Neal McCluskey
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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

Bridging the ESG Credibility Gap: The Role of Institutional Investors in Mitigating ESG Decoupling

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Because of their capacity for sustained and informed monitoring, institutional investors are uniquely positioned to enhance corporate transparency and mitigate ESG decoupling, the gap between corporate sustainability rhetoric and reality. This study examines whether and under what circumstances institutional ownership contributes to aligning ...
Catarina Cepêda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public debt and growth: evidence from Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2014
The aim of this paper is to quantify the long run and short run relationship between debt and economic activity in Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries.
Anita Čeh Časni   +2 more
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