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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Financial capital is widely recognized as having the potential to provide investments needed for net‐zero transitions. While recent empirical studies reveal that financial digitalization and fintech have changed Chinese banks' loan portfolios and business models, they stem from credit restrictions on heavily polluting enterprises and from ...
Akihisa Mori
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Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy [PDF]
, 2014 Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased.
Alexander Monge-Naranjo +1 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Blended finance has emerged as a strategic solution to the multifaceted challenges of projects that navigate the intricate interplay of water, energy, food, and ecosystems, ultimately contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Paolo Gnutti Sandiumenge +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Research in Business and ManagementThis study examined the effect of customer financial literacy on loan repayment outcomes among clients of licensed microfinance banks in Kwara State, Nigeria, grounded in Human Capital Theory and Information Asymmetry Theory.
Ahmed Adekunle
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The Repayment Structure of Agricultural Loans under a Full Repayment Constraint
Journal of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsAbstract We investigate the optimal asset allocation and repayment strategy of an agricultural loan under a guaranteed repayment condition in a continuous-time setting. We propose two forms of the problem: an analytically solvable “separable” problem and a more realistic “nominal” problem that is investigated numerically.
Marcos Escobar-Anel +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan +3 more
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Climate Risk and Real Estate Markets in the EU: Institutional Control Through Regulation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly reshaping the economic foundations of asset markets, yet its implications for the estate sector remain unevenly understood, particularly when institutional and financial mechanisms mediate risk transmission. While a growing body of evidence links climate vulnerability to property valuation and market behaviour ...
Qiulin Yang +4 more
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From Promise to Practice: A Systematic Review of Sustainability‐Linked Loans
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By linking loan terms to predefined environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, sustainability‐linked loans (SLLs) can incentivise banks and corporations towards sustainability. Despite rapid growth, research remains scant and questions remain about SLLs' financial, organisational and sustainability impacts and how they differ from other
Elias Porse, Aurélien Acquier
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