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Motorcycle Noise Annoyance in Residential Areas Along Popular Leisure Routes. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health
Schreckenberg D   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Effects of Country Governance Quality on Corporate Sustainability and Ethical Behaviour

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using institutional theory, we examine how country governance affects two ESG outcomes: ESG performance and ESG controversies. With Refinitiv/LSEG data for ~146,000 firm‐years in 86 countries (2002–2023) and World Bank WGI, we apply a Mundlak within/between decomposition to test complementarity versus substitution (performance) and prevention ...
Paulo Morais Francisco
wiley   +1 more source

Employment Protection and Bank Dividends: Evidence From Wrongful Discharge Laws

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the staggered adoption of the good faith exception to U.S. wrongful discharge laws, we examine the causal effect of employment protection and firing costs on bank dividend payouts. We find stronger employment protection significantly reduces dividends, with good faith adoption lowering payouts by 7% relative to the mean. In line with the
Alessio Bongiovanni, Joshua Cave
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining State Aid: Guiding Law and Policy Reform in a Changing World

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU state aid law has shifted fundamentally from an originally purely repressive tool to a proactive steering mechanism for critical EU goals today. This paper argues that the current legal framework in Article 107 TFEU is gravely misaligned with this new function.
Thomas Jaeger
wiley   +1 more source

Equine vegetative endocarditis and vertebral osteomyelitis due to refractory Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infection

open access: yesEquine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae was the causative agent of vegetative endocarditis and vertebral osteomyelitis in a 24‐year‐old Irish draught gelding that presented with prolonged history of intermittent pyrexia and tachycardia. Clinical investigations revealed persistently reduced neck mobility, tachydysrhythmia and episodic pyrexia up to 41°C ...
E. Kolovou   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

open access: yesFinancial 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
wiley   +1 more source

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