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How Supply Networks Influence Sustainable Innovation: Evidence From Ghana's Public Works Procurement

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent environmental and sustainability standards in procurement increase short‐term production and operational costs to suppliers, which are often recouped by charging price premiums for innovative solutions. However, public buyers are less likely to pay such price premiums, resulting in a disincentive among suppliers to bid for innovation ...
Peter Adjei‐Bamfo, Hadrian Geri Djajadikerta, Kerry Brown, Ferry Jie, Reza Kiani Mavi, Alain Neher   +5 more
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Unemployment Insurance with Hidden Savings [PDF]

This paper studies the design of unemployment insurance when neither the searching effort nor the savings of an unemployed agent can be monitored. If the principal could monitor the savings, the optimal policy would leave the agent savings-constrained ...
Mitchell, Matthew, Zhang, Yuzhe
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Sequencing Finance for Climate Resilience: Instruments, Institutions and Hong Kong's Role in Mobilising Private Capital in Southeast Asia

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates innovative financing strategies to mobilise private capital for climate adaptation, emphasising Hong Kong's role in advancing efforts across Southeast Asia. Using expert interviews and case studies, it addresses two key questions: which financial instruments can strengthen public–private collaboration, and what best ...
Laurence L. Delina, Madeleine Rachel Widia, Olivia Felice Janice Boedijanto, Sharon Feliza Ann P. Macagba, Johanne Rei R. Castro, Rainbow Yi Hung Lam   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information and Opportunistic Behavior in Federal Crop Insurance Programs [PDF]

Opportunistic behavior in crop insurance can arise due to asymmetric information between producers and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Producers who insure fields using transitional yields based on county average yields or who select options such
C. Richard Shumway, Cory G. Walters, Hayley H. Chouinard, Philip R. Wandschneider   +3 more
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Termination of International Sale Contract [PDF]

, 2019
Termination in international contracts is considered a harsh sanction that harms international trade for each breach of contract or its provisions. The interest of international trade is fulfilled in maintaining and completing performance of contract ...
Malkawi, Bashar H.
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Climate Change Risks and Customer Concentration: Evidence From US‐Listed Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While prior studies have investigated climate risks in supply chains, customer ESG pressures, and shared climate exposure, this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to provide direct empirical evidence on the relationship between climate change risks and firms' customer concentration.
Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen, Eric Owusu Boahen, Cuong Nguyen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact Measuring in Sustainable Ventures: A Process Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Impact measurement is crucial for sustainable ventures to quantify their contribution to sustainable development. Although research has highly focused on impact measurement as a static activity, we conduct a qualitative study to explore how impact measuring as a process unfolds over time.
Jan Moellmann, Esther Salvi, Frank‐Martin Belz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transferable Ageing Provisions in Individual Health Insurance Contracts [PDF]

We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used tosmooth the premium profile. The capital stock accumulated for each individual can bedecomposed into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitised life insurance ...
Florian Baumann, Martin Werding, Volker Meier   +2 more
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi, Ruth O. Sagay, Reon Matemane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ACTUARIAL EFFECTS OF UNIT STRUCTURE IN THE U.S. ACTUAL PRODUCTION HISTORY CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM [PDF]

This paper examines the effects of optional subdivision on APHP losses for wheat, corn, and soybeans. Thirty-seven state/crop programs are analyzed and the implications of the results are discussed in relation to newly developed crop and revenue ...
Coble, Keith H., Knight, Thomas O.
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