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Do High Temperatures Affect Firm Demography? Evidence From Italy
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyses the impact of high temperatures and heat stress on Italian firm demography during 2009–2022. Combining provincial‐firm‐level data with a high‐resolution multidecadal meteorological dataset, we investigate whether high temperatures—absolute and anomalous—affect firm entry and exit rates.
Concetta Carnevale +3 more
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A practitioner's guide to intergovernmental fiscal transfers [PDF]
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers are a dominant feature of subnational finance in most countries. They are used to ensure that revenues roughly match the expenditure needs of various orders (levels) of subnational governments.
Shah, Anwar
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PanAfrican Journal of Governance and Development, 2022 Much literature exists on fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations in sub-Saharan Africa, and some of the very salient policy actions that have impacted local government development have emerged from such literature. The developing
Ndamsa D. Thomas +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change has generated an unprecedented expansion of disclosure frameworks, metrics, and governance instruments intended to inform corporate strategy. Yet firms continue to differ markedly in how climate‐related knowledge is interpreted, prioritized, and embedded in decision‐making. This paper addresses this paradox by shifting attention
Giuseppe Modaffari +2 more
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"Indonesia Case Study" in The Role of Intergovernmental Transfers in Improving Educational Outcomes
, 2022 Reports that district-level spending in Indonesia positively affects both access to and the quality of education, but the size of the expenditure in each district largely rests on the magnitude of fiscal transfers each district receives from the central ...
Lewis, Blane
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Fiscal Decentralisation in Lesotho: A Closer Look at Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers
African Journal of Governance and DevelopmentThe concept of fiscal decentralisation is explained to be central to all models of decentralisation of public services to subnational governments. Fiscal decentralisation is generally referred to as the transfer of budget powers in terms of revenue and ...
TJ MOHAPI , VT SAMBO
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Federal Intergovernmental Transfers and the Level of Intraregional Fiscal Decentralization in Russia [PDF]
Финансовый журнал, 2019 The article discusses the federal tools to expand the relative (to the regional level) financial capacity of local budgets in Russia’s budgetary system.
Evgeny N. Timushev
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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque +2 more
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Intergovernmental Transfers and Re-Election Concerned Politicians [PDF]
, 2010 This paper studies intergovernmental transfers. Many intergovernmental transfers are said to serve political purposes. We augment a standard model of political career concerns to allow for multilevel governance.
Hickey, Ross
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Interbudget transferts as a tool for regulating of socio-economic development of the regions
Путеводитель предпринимателя, 2020 A significant differentiation of regions in terms of socio-economic development indicates the need to develop effective policies in the provision of intergovernmental transfers to constituent entities ofthe Russian Federation, aimed at reducing socio ...
N. R. Kuznetsova
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