"The Role of Institutions and Policies in Creating High European Unemployment: The Evidence" [PDF]
The conventional wisdom is that high European unemployment is the result of job markets that are rigid and inflexible. This paper presents new empirical evidence that challenges this received wisdom.
Thomas I. Palley
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the impact of corruption control, as a public institutional mechanism, on hazardous waste emissions of private sector entities. We also examine the extent to which Agenda 2030 moderates the relationship. We analyse data from the top 500 global companies.
Babajide Oyewo +3 more
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The role of foreign and domestic factors in the evolution of the Brazilian EMBI spread and debt dynamics. [PDF]
This paper examines the relative importance of global and domestic factors as a source of macroeconomic fluctuations in Brazil from 1995 to 2004. US and Brazilian credit spreads are encompassed in a near-VAR model, including the main debt-related ...
Andrea Fracasso
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Green Talk, Costly Walk: The Financial Cost of Greenwashing
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined.
S. Taddeo, A. Regoli, O. Weber, R. Carè
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Organizational Resilience to Exogenous Shocks: The Role of Environmental Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines the influence of environmental performance on organizational resilience during an exogenous shock. Drawing on the natural resource–based view, a sample of 3920 firms from 11 sectors and 19 countries is analyzed. This study employs OLS regressions and Cox proportional hazard models to test the effect of environmental ...
Tim Schroll
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Effects of Macroeconomic Announcements on Stock Returns across Volatility Regimes [PDF]
Based on a simple Markov regime switching model, this article presents evidence on the effects of macroeconomic announcements on individual stocks returns.
Henry Aray
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Powering Transparency: Global Drivers of Sustainability Reporting in the Electricity Sector
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the drivers of sustainability reporting quality (QSR), conceptualised along two complementary dimensions, relevance and reliability, to assess how firm‐level attributes and institutional conditions jointly shape disclosure practices in the electricity sector.
Alva Marasigan +3 more
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Macroeconomic factors and frequency domain causality between Gold and Silver returns in India. [PDF]
Resour Policy, 2020 Pradhan AK +3 more
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Mind the Gap—An Empirical Analysis of the Attitude‐Behaviour Gap in Grocery Retailing
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The attitude‐behaviour gap describes the mismatch between what consumers express in terms of preferences and how they actually behave when making purchase decisions. This gap is particularly relevant for organic food, where consumers often show strong positive attitudes but do not consistently buy organic products.
Kevin Ermecke +3 more
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The nexus between capital structure, firm-specific factors, macroeconomic factors and financial performance in the textile sector of Pakistan. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 Ullah A +4 more
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