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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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Income Smoothing and Earnings Informativeness [PDF]
Executive Summary This study investigates the level of income smoothing and its impact on the informativeness of earnings. The main contribution of this research is that as well IFRS as investor protection are considered to examine the association ...
Tudor, A. (Alexandra)
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A Decision‐Making Model for Implementing Green Technology in Sustainable Building Projects
ABSTRACT Green technology (GT) adoption is pivotal for reconciling environmental stewardship with economic viability in the built environment, particularly in resource‐constrained emerging economies. However, empirical evidence on how specific GT drivers actively mitigate adoption barriers remains scarce.
Abdelazim Ibrahim +5 more
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Why Do Firms Smooth Earnings? [PDF]
We explain why a firm may smooth reported earnings. Greater earnings volatility leads to a bigger informational advantage for informed investors over uninformed investors.
Anand Mohan Goel, Anjan V. Thakor
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ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
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Income smoothing is an effort to reduce fluctuations of earnings by manipulating earnings so thatthe amount of profit a period is not too different from the amount of profit the previous period.
Dianila Oktyawati, Dian Agustia
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Stable Shareholdings, the Decision Horizon Problem, and Patterns of Earnings Management [PDF]
Prior studies argue that stable shareholders do not encourage firm managers to manage their earnings to achieve short-term earnings goals. They also state that firm managers with stable shareholders have an incentive to report smooth earnings to maintain
Takuya Iwasaki, Akinobu Shuto
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ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
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Earnings management and institutional differences : Belgian evidence and audit quality as a constraint on earnings management. [PDF]
This study reports the results of an exploratory study on earnings management in a continental European institutional environment, i.e. Belgium. The far majority of the literature (both analytical and empirical) focuses on the Anglo-Saxon context ...
Willekens, Marleen +1 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the bi‐directional relationship between corporate sustainability and environmental uncertainty, focusing on key moderators that shape firms' strategic responses. Using fixed‐effects regressions with S&P 500 data (LSEG Refinitiv Workspace, 2005–2022), we present two key findings.
Felix Peter Thiesen, Rainer Lueg
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