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CEO's Early‐life Experience of Disasters and Corporate Environmental Performance

open access: yesAbacus, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 508-542, June 2026.
We investigate the nexus between the early‐life disaster experiences of chief executive officers (CEOs) and their firms’ environmental performance metrics. We hypothesize that first‐hand experience of the adversities of natural disasters in the formative years of a CEO can catalyze a transformation in their environmental cognizance and perspective ...
Shushu Liao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When machines invent: How AI shapes patent litigation outcomes

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 177-187, Summer 2026.
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer merely a tool of invention. It has become an inventor. As AI systems increasingly contribute to the design and discovery of new technologies, their involvement raises novel challenges for patent law. This essay presents the first empirical test of whether jurors systematically perceive alleged patent ...
Joseph J. Avery, W. Michael Schuster
wiley   +1 more source

Do Major Customers Affect Firms' Environmental, Social and Governance Activities?

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 946-969, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We examine the role of major customers in shaping firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. We find that firms with major customer relationships undertake fewer ESG activities compared to those without such ties. The association is attenuated when institutional ownership is high, firms are less diversified, customers exhibit
Feng Dong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Narratives Contextualizing Numeric Disclosures: Insights From Earnings Calls

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 1263-1286, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We investigate how narrative disclosures during earnings conference calls (ECCs) provide context for quantitative numeric disclosures in quarterly earnings releases, enhancing their informativeness. Drawing on a large sample of 34,918 quarterly ECCs from 1621 US‐listed firms from 2007 to 2020, we extract interpretable textual attributes—such ...
Imelda Taraj, Ranik Raaen Wahlstrøm
wiley   +1 more source

The role of Iowa gambling task performance in response to citalopram treatment for cocaine use disorder. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Drug Alcohol Abuse
de Dios C   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reward‐specific learning parameters change across normative adolescent development and are blunted in youth with high risk for depression

open access: yesJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 963-975, June 2026.
Background Reward learning is thought to undergo refinement in adolescence, but little is known about how computational components of reinforcement learning develop. Given that adolescence is a sensitive period for reward system plasticity with associated vulnerability for depression, it is important to understand developmental trajectories of ...
Holly Sullivan‐Toole   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stress awareness and decision-making under uncertainty: Gender-specific effects of mild hypoxia in the Iowa Gambling Task. [PDF]

open access: yesCogn Affect Behav Neurosci
Pighin S   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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