Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China
ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
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Retraction: JQ1 suppresses tumor growth through downregulating LDHA in ovarian cancer. [PDF]
Qiu H +7 more
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Digital Technology's Role in Circular Waste Management: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Combining circular economy ideas with digital tools offers a game‐changing way to tackle global sustainability problems. This paper focuses on how digital changes and circular economy models link up. A review has been conducted for 112 articles from 2021 to September 2025, using PRISMA‐2020 methodology. This study covered new tech like AI, IoT,
Reza Eslamipoor
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Retraction for: p21-Activated Kinase 4 and Ischemic Acute Kidney Injury in Mice and Humans. [PDF]
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Semaglutide for primary prevention of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes and comorbid rheumatoid arthritis: a target-trial emulation. [PDF]
Malik F +12 more
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Costly Signals and Cheap Talk: Measuring the Decoupling of ESG Routinisation and Greenwashing Risk
ABSTRACT Greenwashing is a systemic challenge to sustainable finance, yet prevailing ESG metrics still tend to equate more disclosure with more sustainability. We develop a dual‐index framework to compare firms' ESG ‘talk’ and ‘walk’ using hard data. An ESG Routinisation Index approximates the costly integration of sustainability into emissions, safety
Giacomo Zatini +2 more
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ABSTRACT This article explores the link between sustainable entrepreneurship and ethics. Based on a systematic literature review, the article analyzes 153 articles by adopting a content analysis approach. The article explores dominant theories, themes and key stakeholders impacted by sustainable entrepreneurship and ethics and focuses on novel ...
Melissa Demartini +2 more
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Guidelines on the use of Artificial Intelligence for authors, reviewers, and editors of APJCN. [PDF]
Editorial Committee of Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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The Effect of Carbon Disclosure Quality on Green Bond Financing Cost
ABSTRACT Existing research on financing costs primarily focuses on traditional financial factors, such as credit ratings, and offers limited examination of non‐financial information. This study examines the impact of the quality of carbon information disclosure on financing costs using a fixed‐effects panel regression, based on data from 166 Chinese ...
Siying Wang, Chaminda Wijethilake
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Analysis of Retracted Publications in the Diabetes Literature. [PDF]
Parvin S, Lotfi M, Nouri M.
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