Forward‐Looking ESG Relevance and Corporate Performance: Evidence From Credit Ratings
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the relevance of ESG issues relate to firm performance, and does ESG relevance moderate the relationship between ESG engagement and firm financial outcomes? Using a novel indicator introduced by Fitch Ratings, we provide new empirical evidence to answer these questions.
Alper Kara +2 more
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The Rise of Carbon Finance: A Bibliometric Perspective
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Carbon finance has emerged as a critical mechanism for mobilizing capital toward climate change mitigation and supporting the transition to low‐carbon economies. However, its intellectual development remains fragmented across environmental economics, financial economics, sustainability, and climate policy.
Yara Ibrahim +5 more
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Determinants of mobile money loan disbursements: Evidence from Uganda's post pandemic digital credit boom. [PDF]
PLoS OneKatusiime L, Agbola FW.
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Standard & Poor’s Small Business Portfolio Model introduces a potential new tool for community development loan risk analysis [PDF]
The Small Business Portfolio Evaluator™ analytical model helps issuers and underwriters to assess the gross default and prepayment risk of small business loan portfolios using a Monte Carlo simulation.
Winston Chang, Weili Chen
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Breadth at the Helm: Generalist CEOs and Corporate ESG Performance‐Evidence From China
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on the Upper Echelons Theory and the Imprinting Theory, this study conjectures that generalist CEOs may have a stronger tendency to pursue environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. We perform multiple regression analyses with observations of Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share listed companies from 2010 to 2023 in order to explore ...
Shanmei Luo +4 more
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Bank Resolution Trade-Offs Under Coupled Liquidity and Credit Risks: An Agent-Based Network Analysis of Systemic Stability. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Gao Q, Pan H, Liu Y, Chen N.
europepmc +1 more source
Systemic risk prevention policies targeting systemically important banks: Does clustering pattern matter? [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Zhu B, Hu X, Deng Y, Lin R.
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Governance Drivers of Fossil Fuel Divestment: Evidence From Global Banks
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change poses increasing transition risks for the banking sector, as financial institutions remain exposed to fossil fuel activities despite growing sustainability commitments. This study examines whether corporate governance influences banks' decisions to adopt fossil fuel divestment policies.
Rosella Carè +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Beyond unit-level certification: An operational agenda for biodiversity-positive tropical production landscapes. [PDF]
iScienceZwerts JA.
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Orchestrating Green Transformation: How AI Adoption Enables Corporate Carbon Neutrality
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As carbon neutrality has become a central goal of global climate governance, how firms achieve low‐carbon transformation has emerged as a critical research issue. However, prior studies have primarily focused on macro‐ or industry‐level analyses, offering limited and fragmented insights into how digital technologies—particularly AI—affect firm‐
Xiaonan Dong, Sungjin Son
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