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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, Ruth O. Sagay, Reon Matemane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capital market of Bulgaria: testing different CAPM corrections [PDF]

, 2010
The present study makes comparison in the usage and the level of accuracy of different methods for calculation of the expected return. The presented methods are based on CAPM, but with different corrections.
Kostenarov, Krasimir, Tsonchev, Radoslav
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Consumer Adoption of Internet of Things

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 673-693, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Internet of Things (IoT), a pivotal technology in enhancing user connectivity, faces a paradox: its widespread potential yet limited consumer adoption. This study addresses this dichotomy by synthesizing a large‐scale meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) and hierarchical linear meta‐analysis (HiLMA) of 2736 effect sizes from ...
Wagner Junior Ladeira, Weng Marc Lim, Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Tareq Rasul, Bernardo Frantz, Jean Carlos de Oliveira Rosa, Mohd Azhar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Risk Management Role of Accounting Conservatism for Operating Cash Flows [PDF]

, 2013
This study examines relations between accounting conservatism and the downside risk of operating cash flows (OCF) and finds both unconditional and conditional conservatism to be negatively associated with OCF downside risk measured by indicators of OCF ...
Biddle, GC, Ma, ML, Song, FM
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Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies for Detecting the Tubulin Post‐Translational Modifications Glutamylation and Lysine‐40 Acetylation

Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Post‐translational modifications (PTMs) to tubulin subunits in microtubule filaments are thought to comprise a component of the tubulin code that specifies microtubule functions in cell physiology and animal development. Acetylation of Lysine‐40 (K40) on α‐tubulin (αTub‐K40ac) and glutamylation of both α‐ and β‐tubulin are two tubulin PTMs of ...
Lynne Blasius, Ezekiel C. Thomas, Erik H. Collet, Erin Jenson, Chad G. Pearson, Ryoma Ohi, Kristen J. Verhey   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and Its Relation With Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N 
S. Weiss, D. Steger, Y. Kaur, A. Hildebrandt, U. Schroeders, O. Wilhelm, Christian Kandler   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Market Perceptions of ESG Reputational Risk in the US Pharmaceutical Industry

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Negative ESG‐related reputational events generate significant corporate risks, particularly within sensitive sectors such as the pharmaceutical industry. Using novel reputational data, this research investigates investor perceptions of the consequences of experienced ESG breaches among US pharmaceutical firms.
Erdinc Akyildirim, Shaen Corbet, Jose Antonio Muñiz, Frank Scrimgeour   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels, Johannes Zimmermann, Daniel Leising, Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk premium: insights over the threshold [PDF]

, 2006
The aim of this paper is twofold: First to test the adequacy of Pareto distributions to describe the tail of financial returns in emerging and developed markets, and second to study the possible correlation between stock market indices observed returns ...
Fernandes, Jose L. B., Hasman, Augusto, Peña Sánchez de Rivera, Juan Ignacio   +2 more
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The role of the discount rate in tendering highway concessions under the LPVR approach. [PDF]

, 2010
Flexible-term highway concessions are becoming quite popular around the world as a means of mitigating the traffic risk ultimately allocated to the concessionaire.
Aghion, Aschauer, Baeza, Benavides, Brealey, Engel, Engel, Flyvbjerg, Foice, Guasch, José Manuel Vassallo, Lemos, Nombela, Sharpe, Vassallo, Vassallo, Vassallo   +16 more
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