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Funding Costs and Liquidity Creation: Does ESG Play Any Role?
ABSTRACT This study examines how banks' funding costs affect liquidity creation and whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance shapes this relationship. Using panel data for 136 U.S. commercial banks from 2005 to 2022, we show that higher funding costs are associated with lower liquidity creation, indicating that more expensive ...
Sattam Bin Kowibeen +2 more
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Nigeria’s fiscal deficit remains a persistent challenge, driven by volatile oil revenues and weak budgetary discipline. This study examines the extent to which oil revenue volatility, government spending, and external debt servicing impact Nigeria’s ...
AHMED OLUWATOBI ADEKUNLE
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A Simulation Analysis of the Debt Problem in Pakistan [PDF]
The current debt situation in Pakistan and the resulting financial crisis require serious attempts to find a sustainable indigenous solution. As such it is essential to search ways and means to reduce dependence on external borrowing over medium to long ...
Eatzaz Ahmad, Ayaz Ahmed
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Debt Servicing and Sectoral Economic Growth in Kenya
The study objective was toestablish the effect of debt servicing on sectoral economic growth as well as the moderating effect of inflation on the relationship between debt servicing and sectorial economic growth in Kenya.
Ambrose Jagongo +5 more
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi +2 more
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Debt reduction for poverty eradication in the least developed countries: Analysis and recommendations on LDC debt [PDF]
This paper reviews the main obstacles to human and social development posed by the current external debt burdens of the least development countries.
European Network on Debt and Development
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Complex Firms, Controversial Outcomes: Global Evidence on ESG Failures and Remedies
ABSTRACT We examine whether business complexity increases firms' exposure to negative environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes, specifically ESG controversies, using a global panel of firms from 37 countries over the period 2002–2021.
Abongeh A. Tunyi +3 more
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The Economic Consequences of Rising U.S. Government Debt: Privileges at Risk [PDF]
The rapidly growing federal government debt has become a concern for policy makers and the public. Yet the U.S. government has seemingly unbounded access to credit at low interest rates.
Henning Bohn
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang +2 more
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From Baker to Brady: Can the new plan work?
The Brady Plan proposes to stimulate reforms and development in countries facing problems with their external debt through debt relief and debt servicing.
ROBERT DEVLIN
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