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Debt and investments: analysis of selected countries

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2020
Starting with overview of existing approaches to meaning and use of the terms the paper focuses on analysis of two indicators vital in any economy – debt and investments. It discusses the differences of sovereign and country debts as well as internal and
Talant Kaliyeva, Lyazzat Sembiyeva, Aida Zhagyparova, Azyk Orozonova, Gulzhan Tazhbenova, Zhanat Tulegenova   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

WeakSATD: Detecting Weak Self-admitted Technical Debt [PDF]

19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '22), May 23--24, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2022
Speeding up development may produce technical debt, i.e., not-quite-right code for which the effort to make it right increases with time as a sort of interest. Developers may be aware of the debt as they admit it in their code comments. Literature reports that such a self-admitted technical debt survives for a long time in a program, but it is not yet ...
arxiv   +1 more source

External debt and growth: role of stable macroeconomic policies

Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative Science, 2020
Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of external debt on economic growth in Bangladesh within a broader macroeconomic scenario. Design/methodology/approach In the process of doing so, it assesses the empirical cointegration, long-run and ...
S. Dey, M. Tareque
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Voluntary sustainability assurance in small and medium‐sized entities: The role of country origin in Europe

Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 462-483, January 2023., 2023
Abstract The assurance of sustainability information by small and medium‐sized entities (SMEs) has not attracted much research interest to date. To rectify this, we draw on a sample of European firms (from the EU, the United Kingdom and Norway) extracted from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) database and explore the disclosure variable in relation
Antonio Somoza
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Relations Between Public External Debt and Economic Growth in African Countries: A Curse or Blessing?

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity, 2020
This paper used the Johansen Cointegration test and system Generalised Method of Moments (sysGMM) to examine the dynamic relations between external debt and economic growth in 43 African countries over the period 2001–2018. The study used data from World
Benjamin Ighodalo Ehikioya, A. Omankhanlen, Godswill Osagie Osuma, Ofe Iwiyisi Inua   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID‐19, ESG investing, and the resilience of more sustainable stocks: Evidence from European firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 602-623, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Following the COVID‐19 outbreak, orientation toward sustainability is a critical factor in ensuring firm survival and growth. Using a large sample of 1,204 firms in Europe during the year 2020, this study investigates how more sustainable firms fare during the pandemic compared with other firms in terms of risk–return trade‐off and stock ...
Giovanni Cardillo, Ennio Bendinelli, Giuseppe Torluccio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Exploratory Study on the Introduction and Removal of Different Types of Technical Debt [PDF]

, 2021
To complete tasks faster, developers often have to sacrifice the quality of the software. Such compromised practice results in the increasing burden to developers in future development. The metaphor, technical debt, describes such practice. Prior research has illustrated the negative impact of technical debt, and many researchers investigated how ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Political institutions and debt crises [PDF]

, 2009
This paper shows that political institutions matter in explaining defaults on external and domestic debt obligations. We explore a large number of political and macroeconomic variables using a non-parametric technique to predict safety from default.
A. Alesina, A. Alesina, A. Kraay, A. Rose, Beatrice Weder, C. Clague, C. Reinhart, C. Reinhart, Caroline Van Rijckeghem, D. C. North, F. Sturzenegger, G. Caprio, G. Tabellini, G. Tullock, J. Bulow, K. Osband, K. Schultz, M. Allers, M. Bussiere, M. Olson, M. Pettis, N. Roubini, P. G. Nils, R. Glick, T. Beck, T. Persson, T. Persson, T. Persson, T. R. Cusack, W. J. Henisz, W. J. Henisz   +30 more
core   +1 more source

Organic versus cosmetic efforts of the quality of carbon reporting by top New Zealand firms. Does market reward or penalise?

Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 686-703, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This study explores the quality of carbon reporting (QCR) by New Zealand (NZ) firms and its changes over time. It also explores the impact of QCR on the market reputation of firms. Using a sample of 300 company‐year observations between 2015 and 2020 from top listed firms of NZ, the study develops a 14‐item QCR index.
Habib Zaman Khan, Muhammad Nurul Houqe, Ielemia K Ielemia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of External Debt on Greenhouse Gas Emissions [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
We estimate the causal effect of external debt on greenhouse gas emissions in a panel of 78 emerging market and developing economies over the 1990-2015 period. Unlike previous literature, we use external instruments to address the potential endogeneity in the relationship between external debt and greenhouse gas emissions.
arxiv