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Confronting Biodiversity Risk: Its Role in Shaping Corporate External Financing Choice
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates how biodiversity risk shapes corporate financing decisions. We propose a Financing Hierarchy Distortion framework, arguing that biodiversity risk amplifies information asymmetry and legitimacy costs, thereby pushing firms toward debt‐heavy adjustments.
Yang Zhou +3 more
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Is the Dividend Puzzle Solved? [PDF]
Since the 1960’s, there is an ongoing debate on dividend policy, which remains a controversial issue to this day. Why do firms pay dividends? The academics have not been able to agree on any convincing explanation, and the same time, many even claim that
Maria Rosa Borges
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The Circular Economy—A New Resilience Paradigm?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) has traditionally been positioned as a central instrument of the sustainability paradigm. Yet escalating geopolitical volatility and supply chain fragility have elevated resilience to a parallel strategic imperative, and the conceptual integration of CE and resilience remains underexplored.
Julian Kirchherr, Felix Carl Schultz
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Does lowering dividend tax rates increase dividends repatriated?: evidence of intra-firm cross-border dividend repatriation policies by German Multinational Enterprises [PDF]
This paper explores the impact dividend taxes exert on the dividends repatriated from foreign affiliates to their German parent company. Based on an augmented Lintner model of firms' dividend payout decisions, the paper focusses on cross-border intra ...
Wild, Michael +2 more
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From ESG to Biodiversity: Decoupling and Its Asymmetries as a Source of Biodiversity Risk
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While environmental, social and governance (ESG) research has extensively documented the risks stemming from disclosure and performance gaps, the growing demand for biodiversity reporting raises concerns that analogous inconsistencies may amplify corporations' exposure to biodiversity risk.
Etienne Develay, Nader S. Virk
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A note on the double dividend hypothesis [PDF]
This paper tries to clear the confusion in the literature about the potential of environmental tax reforms to yield a double dividend. In opposition to a number of recent papers it is found that the possibility for a double dividend depends largely on ...
Scholz, Christian M.
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CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Micro‐CSR Perspective
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although research on micro‐level CSR has increasingly emphasized individual‐level antecedents, the role of CEO overconfidence has not been systematically integrated into the literature. To address this gap, a systematic literature review was undertaken of 62 studies on CEO overconfidence and CSR, revealing a mixed picture of positive, negative,
Jannis Kreinhop
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Earnings, Dividend Policy, and Present Value Relations: Building Blocks of Dividend Policy Invariant Cash Flows [PDF]
In a Modigliani-Miller world, price equals the risk-adjusted present value of future dividends and dividend policy is irrelevant for asset pricing. This paper searches for cash flows with two characteristics: asset prices can be calculated from their ...
Bruce N. Lehmann
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether occupational pension funds (OPFs) apply a strategic and long‐term logic when assessing ESG practices in their investee firms. Using discourse analysis of semi‐structured interviews with asset managers and workers' representatives, we examine whether Spanish OPFs look beyond compliance‐driven CSR and consider the ...
Manuel Moreno‐García +3 more
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Local Dividend Clienteles [PDF]
We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks.
Bo Becker +2 more
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