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Does nature shape risk preferences? Evidence from Chile, Norway, and Tanzania

Economic Inquiry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 568-590, April 2025.
Abstract Does exposure to a more risky environment affect risk preferences? Going beyond single‐case study evidence, we report results from five surveys conducted in three countries and link this with administrative data to study whether a link between exposure and preferences is detectable and widespread. We find no evidence for endogenous preferences
Florian Diekert, Robbert‐Jan Schaap
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Climate Risks on Corporate Debt Financing

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global resource demands and climate pressures grow, companies face the dual challenge of sustainability and environmental responsibility. Using panel data from U.S. publicly listed firms (2014–2022) and a text‐based proxy for climate risks, this study explores the impact of just transition climate risks on corporate debt financing.
Xiaowei Ma, Xin Zhao, Xihui Haviour Chen, Zijie Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Banks Learn From Natural Disasters? Evidence From the U.S. Financial Sector

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether U.S. banks learn from natural disasters. We explore several potential channels of adjustment and find that exposed banks primarily respond by adopting precautionary capital measures. This behaviour is evident both in the long run, when assessing divergent trends in the evolution of equity over time, and in the short
Dennis Dreusch, Gunnar Niemann, Peter Reichling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intangible Value Creation Through Teamwork

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of US firms from 1993 to 2023, comprising 38,502 firm‐year observations, we find that collaboration culture positively correlates with intangible value creation. We identify corporate innovation and human capital as the mechanisms via which collaboration correlates with intangible value creation.
Sagarika Mishra, Dinh Hoang Bach Phan, Vuong Thao Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early‐Life Disaster Exposure and the Investment Response to Monetary Policy

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We place CEOs' formative experiences at the center of analyzing how firms respond to monetary policy. Specifically, we examine how early‐life exposure to natural disasters shapes CEOs’ investment behavior following monetary shocks. CEOs with exposure to moderate natural disasters during their formative years exhibit stronger risk‐taking ...
Samer Adra, Yang Gao, Elie Menassa, Jiayi Yuan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi‐objective maritime vessel routing with safety considerations

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The routing of maritime vessels is a challenging optimization problem that involves finding an adequate balance between conflicting and multiple objectives. This paper proposes a methodology based on inverse optimization to find appropriate objective weights that account for conflicting objectives. To formulate the inverse optimization problem,
Nazanin Sharif, Mikael Rönnqvist, Jean‐François Cordeau, Jean‐François Audy, Gurjeet Warya   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Justice in the Triple Planetary Crisis: A Scoping Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To identify and report how gender justice is conceptualised and discussed in contemporary health literature in relation to the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, with a particular focus on the experiences of women and gender‐diverse populations, and the representation of nurses and other healthcare ...
Catelyn Richards, Micah Peters, Julia Charalambous, Lila Singh‐Peterson, Lucy Osborn, Aletha Ward, Jessica LeClair, Tracy Levett‐Jones   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protecting child and adolescent mental health in an uncertain future: commentary on Jaffee and colleagues' Annual Research Review – ‘Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health: a review of studies in the United States’

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 599-601, April 2025.
Jaffee and colleagues present a masterful review of the evidence for the impacts of cash transfer programmes on child and adolescent mental health in the United States. While global meta‐analyses find evidence of effectiveness, Jaffee and colleagues highlight the limited number of studies in Northern America, but find overall results indicating small ...
Lucie Cluver
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing Baseline Information for the Risk of Flatheaded Borer Attack in Specialty Tree Crops Using Trapping and On‐Farm Surveys

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flatheaded borers (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) are largely xylophagous insects. Larvae of flatheaded borers tunnel into the trunks of trees, with boring and feeding damage eventually appearing on the surface as discolored bark, sunken areas, bark splits or bark sloughing.
Zia V. Williamson, Brett R. Blaauw, Shimat V. Joseph   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural disaster risk salience and the strategic appointment of directors with sustainability expertise

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how salient sustainability risks from near‐miss natural disasters influence board composition. Using a difference‐in‐differences design, I find that firms located in counties neighboring disaster‐affected areas significantly increase the presence of directors with sustainability expertise following the disaster.
Bo Wang
wiley   +1 more source