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The affects of health shocks and house prices on debt holdings by older Americans [PDF]

, 2009
We offer a comprehensive empirical analysis of the debt holdings of older Americans using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study. The average older American household owes a surprisingly large amount of mortgage and consumer debt, even in their ...
Crook, Jonathan, Hochguertel, S
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Evaluating the Impact of Sustainability on the Financial Value of Brands: Activity‐Based or Customer Perception Metrics?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability is widely framed as strategic, yet its relationship with financial brand value remains contested. We explain why prior research reports divergent results by distinguishing between activity‐based ESG metrics and customer perception‐based sustainability metrics and by theorising how each activates different value‐creation ...
Gabriela Salinas, Carmen Abril
wiley   +1 more source

Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress [PDF]

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries from 1994 to 2001 we investigate households’ attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage holders ...
Lojschová, Adriana, Georgarakos, Dimitris, Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie   +2 more
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Risks to Canada’s corporate sector as interest rates rise

Economic and Social Reports
As interest rates rise to curb inflation, so too do risks associated with higher levels of debt. While much has been written about elevated levels of household debt, less attention has been paid to the growth in Canadian corporate debt and its ...
Sean Clarke, Dave Krochmalnek
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Governance, Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Financial Dimensions Through an Integrated Multicriteria Decision‐Making Approach

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable governance depends on the joint functioning of institutional quality, fiscal discipline, environmental performance, and socioeconomic inclusion. However, many composite indicators rely on subjective weighting schemes and leave the structural role of governance underspecified.
Ömer Faruk Rençber, Eda Zorkirişçi, Abdulkadir Aksoy, Zehra Çelik   +3 more
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Proportion of land transfer proceeds for rural development, the rural household income, and the debt risk of the rural households in China

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
From the perspective of rural household income, this paper discusses the relationship between the proportion of land transfer proceeds for rural development and the debt risk of rural households and carries out the empirical testing by using a two-way ...
Liya Zhu, Zhida Ma, Jianxu Liu, Lemin Gao   +3 more
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Leading Toward Sunset or Sunrise? CEO Career Horizon, ESG Performance, Market Leadership, and Underperformance Duration

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the effect of chief executive officers' (CEOs') career horizons on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and investigate how hard cues influence this performance effect. Our study offers a new perspective of CEO career horizon as a mechanism that enables firms to improve their ESG performance when occupying a ...
Sofia Angelidou, Charalampos Saridakis, Panos Piperopoulos   +2 more
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Determinants of Household Debt: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Economies
Household debt plays a crucial role in influencing the performance of the economy and its vulnerability to shocks. This study synthesises studies on this topic.
Cloudio Kumbirai Chikeya, Lungile Ntsalaze   +1 more
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A Business Strategy or Compliance? Review of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Landscape

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have gained significant prominence within the corporate landscape, becoming essential to the sustainability and success of modern business models. Companies are increasingly required to integrate sustainable and responsible practices into their daily operations to meet stakeholder expectations
Roberto Cerchione, Viviana Sicardi
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Debt as a source of financial stress in Australian households [PDF]

This paper examines the role of demographic, socioeconomic and debt portfolio characteristics as contributors to financial stress in Australian households.
Andrew C. Worthington
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