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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We utilize a rich dataset of manufacturing firms to investigate the heterogeneous effects of ISO 14001 on the financial performance of certified firms. We employ machine learning techniques, specifically causal tree and causal forest, to uncover these effects. Our findings reveal consistently positive average effects of ISO 14001 certification
Xiaoliu Xu, Abdoul G. Sam
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Nursing Open, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 915-925, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Background Childhood cancer is proportionately higher in Africa and these result in increased demands on caregivers. The inability of affected children to take care of themselves; coupled with prescribed medical interventions presents physical and social burdens on family caregivers.
Beatrice A. A. Bekui +4 more
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Better Technical Debt Detection via SURVEYing [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Software analytics can be improved by surveying; i.e. rechecking and (possibly) revising the labels offered by prior analysis. Surveying is a time-consuming task and effective surveyors must carefully manage their time. Specifically, they must balance the cost of further surveying against the additional benefits of that extra effort.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to shed light on how corporate sustainable performance can influence the degree of nonfinancial disclosure (NFD) readability, determining which pillar of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance has the most significant impact.
Giuseppe Maria Bifulco +3 more
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The Determinants of Corporate Debt Maturity Structure: Evidence from Czech Firms (in English) [PDF]
This paper investigates the determinants of the maturity structure of Czech corporate debt. A theoretical section provides an overview of contemporary theories on corporate debt maturity structure. An empirical section describes an econometric model that
Pavel Körner
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The Determinants of the Debt Maturity Decision for Real Estate Investment Trusts [PDF]
This research uses the maturity of incremental bond issues and the weighted-average maturity of all outstanding debt and tests various theories from the corporate debt maturity literature to discover if real estate investment trust (REIT) debt maturity ...
Fang Zhao +2 more
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study explored the drivers of binge eating in people with food insecurity and recurrent binge eating. Method Participants were 28 adults, ages 26–69 (M = 46.22, SD = 11.94; 64.3% female), who endorsed current food insecurity and recurrent binge eating (≥ 12 episodes in the past 3 months).
Emilie A. Green +6 more
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Policy &Internet, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 845-874, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Over the past decade, China's central and municipal governments have consistently supported the development of social credit systems (SCSs). While research has highlighted the Chinese public's high approval and backing of SCSs, their engagement with these digital projects has not been fully explored. Based on 44 semi‐structured interviews, our
Haili Li, Genia Kostka
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Default and the maturity structure in sovereign bonds [PDF]
This paper studies the maturity composition and the term structure of interest rate spreads of government debt in emerging markets. We document that in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Russia, when interest rate spreads rise, debt maturity shortens and the
Ananth Ramanarayanan, Cristina Arellano
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The Changing Debt Maturity Structure of U.S. Farms [PDF]
The objectives of this paper are to examine the debt maturity structure of farm businesses and to investigate the determinants of the farm businesses’ choice of the maturity structure.
Harris, James Michael +1 more
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