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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
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Judicial efficiency, debt structure, and cost of debt
Managerial and Decision EconomicsAbstractIn the framework of law and finance literature, this study investigates the link between judicial efficiency and financial debt cost in 1487 non‐financial firms across the euro zone from 2010 to 2021. Utilizing qualitative (rule of law) and quantitative (judicial proceeding length) indicators from the Worldwide Governance Indicators and Doing ...
Inmaculada Aguiar‐Díaz +2 more
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The Influence of ESG Controversies on Financing Costs for European Companies: Does Culture Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies and corporate financing costs, focusing on the moderating effect of national culture. It analyzes European companies listed on the STOXX 600 Index from 2016 to 2023.
Souad Brinette +2 more
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Jurnal Ilmu Sosial, 2016 Capital structure decision to influence the value of the company to date is still the actual issues in financial management. That there was no influence of the capital structure decision of enterprise value or not there is a difference of companies use ...
Agung Budiatmo
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Capital Structure and Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies in Nepal
Journal of Mathematics Instruction, Social Research and OpinionIn the present competitive globalized business environment, capital structure is a debatable issue in finance, and how firms mix debt and equity to minimize the cost of capital to accelerate firms’ financial performance.
Pitambar Lamichhane, Bashu Dev Dhungel
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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 +3 more
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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 +1 more
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Funding Costs and Liquidity Creation: Does ESG Play Any Role?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.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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PUBLIC DEBT: STRUCTURE AND CHARACTERISTICS ROMANIA’S CASE [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2013 Addressing the issue of public debt in the present context is extremely useful, both at the global level, especially at the level of Romania, since the country has faced and faces the difficulty of identifying and collecting the necessary resources from ...
Căruntu Roxana Corina
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.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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