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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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THRET: Threshold Regression with Endogenous Threshold Variables [PDF]
This paper extends the simple threshold regression framework of Hansen (2000) and Caner and Hansen (2004) to allow for endogeneity of the threshold variable.
Andros Kourtellos +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee +3 more
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MathematicsWe investigated the excessive external financing problem in Chinese industrial firms by examining the potential threshold effect of the leverage ratio on the total factor productivity of firms. We hypothesized the existence of a turning point in leverage
Jinjing Tian, Taining Wang, Feng Yao
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Labor force participation among Indian elderly: does health matter? [PDF]
The paper analyzes the effect of health status on labour force participation for aged Indians. The potential endogeneity in health and labour force participation has been taken care of by using full information maximum likelihood (FIML) and estimation ...
Pandey, Manoj K.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore +2 more
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Institutions and Economic Performance: Endogeneity and Parameter Heterogeneity [PDF]
The hallmark of the recent development and growth literature is the quest to identify institutions that explain significant portions of the observed differences in living standards. There are two drawbacks to the prominent approaches that focus either on
Andreas Leukert, Theo Eicher
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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The Impact of State Corporate Taxes on FDI Location [PDF]
This paper examines the effects of state corporate income taxes on the location of foreign direct investment in the U.S., taking into account the endogeneity of taxes and the outside options of investors.
Claudio A. Agostini(Georgetown University/Ilades)
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&A), board characteristics, and ESG performance in BRICS companies, considering the moderating role of sectoral sensitivity. The study analyzes 11,402 observations from 2293 BRICS companies, employing Two‐Stage Least Squares (2SLS) to address endogeneity and logistic ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos +2 more
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