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How Does Mandated Non‐Financial Disclosure Affect Corporate Cash Holdings? Evidence From the CSR Disclosure Mandate in China

Economics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether and how mandatory non‐financial disclosure affects corporate cash holdings. Using a panel data set of Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2005 to 2012 and exploiting the introduction of mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure for a subset of firms as a quasi‐natural experiment, we find that firms subject to ...
Adrian Cheung, Tianpei Luo, Siwen Song
wiley   +1 more source

The role of modern agricultural technologies in improving agricultural productivity and land use efficiency. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Chen X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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Comparison of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the construction of timber, concrete, and steel check dams in Akita, Japan: An input-output analysis. [PDF]

PLoS One
Huzita T, Noda R.
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Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
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Lender‐Affiliated Analysts and Syndicated Loans

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Loans to borrowers covered by affiliated analysts have lower spreads. This effect is driven mostly by affiliated analysts sharing information with, rather than demanding information from, lending arms. Exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in brokerage affiliations, we find that the results are likely to be causal.
Yongqiang Chu, Tao Ma, Cong (Roman) Wang
wiley   +1 more source

[From research to practice: self-learning course "Psychotropic drugs in residential geriatric care" PhasaPII project]. [PDF]

Z Gerontol Geriatr
Eich-Krohm A, Reichenbach M, Kammerer K, Maier M.   +3 more
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Brand Equity and Debt Diversification

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how brand equity influences the diversity of firms’ debt structures. We propose that brand equity, by signaling larger and more stable future cash flows and greater product market awareness, alters the fundamental trade‐offs that drive optimal debt type diversity.
David C. Mauer, Miaomiao Yu, Aihuan Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimally Invasive Surgery Deserts: Is There a Role for Robotic Assisted Surgery? [PDF]

JSLS
Mitzman B, Johnson S, Lichtveld M, Culbertson R, Fong ZV.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating Contested Spaces: Gendered Interactions in Everyday Entrepreneuring Among Jua Kali Women in Rural Kenya

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the daily experiences of Jua Kali women entrepreneurs in Western Kenya, unpacking how gendered power relations are enacted within informal marketplaces and how women entrepreneurs mobilize agency within these structurally and institutionally constrained contexts.
Tabitha Sindani, Cécile Guillaume, Mayra Ruiz‐Castro, Carole Elliott   +3 more
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