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Nudging ESG Investments via Digital Financial Advising: Evidence From an Investment Game Experiment

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The influence of financial advisors on retail investors' sustainable investment choices remains surprisingly underexplored, despite their potential to shape investment behavior. This study uses an experimental design to examine how sustainability‐related information provided by a digital (simulated) financial advisor affects individual demand ...
Caterina Lucarelli, Manuele Citi, Matteo Pasquino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Debt Overhang Hypothesis: Evidence from Pakistan

Studies in Business and Economics, 2016
This study investigates the debt overhang hypothesis for Pakistan in the period 1960-2007. The study examines empirically the dynamic behaviour of GDP, debt services, the employed labour force and investment using the time series concepts of unit roots ...
Shah Muhammad Imran, Ullah Irfan, Rahman Zia Ur, Jan Nadeem   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable plans and debt [PDF]

This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model of optimal taxation similar to that of Lucas and Stokey (1983), except that we let the government default on its debt.
V.V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe
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Green Talk, Costly Walk: The Financial Cost of Greenwashing

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined.
S. Taddeo, A. Regoli, O. Weber, R. Carè
wiley   +1 more source

Passing the Buck on Debt Relief: How the failure of the private sector to cancel debts is fueling a crisis across the developing world

, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic will not be defeated unless it’s defeated in all countries. In developing countries, where public health spending is often severely constrained, significant debt cancellation will be necessary to deal with the ...

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Powering Transparency: Global Drivers of Sustainability Reporting in the Electricity Sector

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the drivers of sustainability reporting quality (QSR), conceptualised along two complementary dimensions, relevance and reliability, to assess how firm‐level attributes and institutional conditions jointly shape disclosure practices in the electricity sector.
Alva Marasigan, Muhammad Nurul Houqe, Warwick Stent, Olayinka Moses   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A socio-economic rights centred evaluation of Kenya’s law and practice on sovereign debt acquisition, servicing and restructuring

Kabarak Law Review
This paper addresses Kenya’s rising sovereign debt burden and its implications for socio-economic rights. Despite constitutional mandates to safeguard these rights, Kenya’s debt accumulation and management practices seem to prioritise servicing ...
Alex Melonye Tamei
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Exploring the Governance–Disclosure Nexus: Board Structures and ESG Disclosures in South Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governance structures such as board composition and board functions influence environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting among listed South African firms. This study examines 90 public listed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange between 2012 and 2022.
Henriette Elsabe Scholtz, Suzanne Kieviet   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macroeconomic resilience and the Debt-Investment Nexus in Zambia. Empirical insights for sustainable growth

Accounting and Management Research
This study provides a thorough quantitative analysis of Zambia’s macroeconomic performance from 2010 to 2023. It focuses on the relationship between external debt, inflation, investment, and economic growth.
Tyson Yangailo
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A Country Risk Assessment Model and the Asian Crisis [PDF]

This paper estimates country risk using an alternative method to commonly used country risk models by the rating agencies. The paper builds on earlier work and tries to identify empirically the important factors affecting debt service capacity of ...
Timur Han Gur
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