Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Macroeconomic coordination and commercial integration in MERCOSUR [PDF]
Commercial integration in the Mercosur area has increased substantially in the last few years and it is expected to continue to grow rapidly in the near future. However, given the historical record of policy management in the region, especially in Brazil
Afonso S. Bevilaqua
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Prioritizing macroeconomic stability within Ukraine's financial policy under contemporary conditions
Ensuring financial stability and minimizing vulnerability to external negative influences is a necessary tool for the sustainable development of national economic systems and their sustained growth.
Donkohlova, Nataliia, Lukianenko, Iryna
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ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
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Macroeconomic policies, wage developments, and Germany’s stagnation [PDF]
The paper fundamentally challenges the institutional sclerosis explanation of the present German economic stagnation. Instead, we present a macroeconomic explanation focusing on the combined effects of too restrictive monetary policies, too restrictive ...
Achim Truger, Eckhard Hein
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Macroeconomic policy and the distribution of growth rates [PDF]
We examine the view that high-quality macroeconomic policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for economic growth. We first construct a new index of the quality of macroeconomic policy. We then directly compare growth rate distributions across
Vatcharin Sirimaneetham, Jonathan Temple
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International macroeconomic announcements and intraday Euro exchange rate volatility [PDF]
The short-run reaction of Euro returns volatility to a wide range of macroeconomic announcements is investigated using five-minute returns for spot Euro-Dollar, Euro-Sterling and Euro-Yen exchange rates.
Speight, Alan E. H. +2 more
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Green Hydrogen for Public Transportation: Insights From an ABM and From Palma de Mallorca Case Study
ABSTRACT The development of green hydrogen (GH2) value chains is crucial for decarbonizing sectors such as transport and industry. Their emergence, however, requires coordination among diverse actors, technologies, and regulations, which traditional analytical approaches struggle to capture.
Roberta De Cristofaro +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Macroeconomic parameters and structural-dynamic indicators of the real sector of the state economy
The author conducts the retrospective economic and statistical evaluation of the main macroeconomic indicators of industry development and regional industrial complexes of Ukraine.
О.О. Demeshok
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Do macroeconomic variables explain future stock market movements in South Africa?
This study aims to address the empirical question of whether macroeconomic variables drive future stock market returns in South Africa. If found, the macroeconomic variables would therefore constitute useful predictive information for the future FTSE/JSE
MacFarlane, Andrew
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