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(How) Can Performance Appraisals Improve Employee Creativity? A Multidimensional Perspective
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Performance appraisal (PA) is commonly used by organizations to manage their employees. However, the role of PAs in employee creativity remains ambiguous, with positive, negative, or even nonsignificant relationships reported in the literature. The aim of the present research is to address this ambiguity.
Xiaoya Wen +3 more
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Time-varying return predictability in the Chinese stock market
, 2016 China's stock market is the largest emerging market all over the world. It is widely accepted that the Chinese stock market is far from efficiency and it possesses possible linear and nonlinear dependence.
Jiang, Zhi-Qiang +2 more
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Earnings Quality and ESG Performance in Energy and Utilities: What Really Matters?
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper investigates the controversial relationship between firms' earnings quality and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, focusing on the energy and utility sectors given their significant regulatory pressures, environmental impact, and capital‐intensive nature, which render ESG performance particularly important for ...
Antonios Persakis +2 more
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Climate Change Laws and European Stock Markets: An Event Analysis
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Under the context of the climate change we assess the impact of EU's legislative initiative on European stock markets. Specifically, we focus on its impact on energy and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) sectors for equity returns and volatility for a representative basket of EU countries (participating also in Eurozone) as well as ...
Theodoros Bratis +2 more
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Alternative Price Dynamics and Valuation of Flexible Strategies
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we study the optimal operational strategy of production projects. We investigate different underlying price models and determine the optimal barriers of transition to suspension, recovery, or irreversible abandonment of productive activity.
Cristina Bertolosi +2 more
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A Review on the Multidimensional Analysis of Earnings Quality
Revista de Contabilidad: Spanish Accounting Review, 2019 There is a generalized consensus among accounting researchers about the multidimensional nature of earnings quality: Earnings quality depends on a series of characteristics that enhance the usefulness of the earnings figure for decision making.
Ana Licerán Gutiérrez +1 more
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Accruals and Aggregate Stock Market Returns [PDF]
Past research has shown that the level of operating accruals is a negative cross-sectional predictor of stock returns. This paper examines whether the accrual anomaly extends to the aggregate stock market. In contrast with cross-sectional findings, there
Hirshleifer, David +2 more
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ESG Performance and Credit Risk: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Companies
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on credit risk using a sample of manufacturing firms listed on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share markets from 2009 to 2021. Employing fixed effects, the generalised method of moments, and instrumental variable models, we find that ...
Yanan Wang +4 more
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Do Investors Overvalue Firms With Bloated Balance Sheets? [PDF]
If investors have limited attention, then accounting outcomes that saliently highlight positive aspects of a firm's performance will promote high market valuations.
David Hirshleifer +3 more
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Bank Income Smoothing, Societal Patriarchy and Policy Uncertainty
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a sample of 745 banks from 26 OECD countries over the period 1997–2023, we investigate the moderating effects of societal patriarchy on bank income smoothing (IS), amidst policy uncertainty (PU). Results indicate that in periods of high PU, banks operating in highly patriarchal societies tend to curtail the use of loan loss provisions ...
Tanveer Ahsan +4 more
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