The Effect of Voluntary Staying at Home on Japanese Female Suicide During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
ABSTRACT In Japan, female suicide increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This study evaluated how pandemic‐related home confinement affected female suicide. We employed a shift‐share instrumental variable design to assess whether differential exposure to the pandemic caused changes in suicide incidence.
Yoko Ibuka +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines how Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), Independent Venture Capital (IVC) and Venture Capital Syndicate (VCS) promote innovation among startups. Drawing on a dataset of 4406 venture‐backed deals in North America, spanning 1998–2019, it explores how the configurations of investors and their contextual factors influence ...
Fatima Shuwaikh +3 more
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Earnings Quality and ESG Performance in Energy and Utilities: What Really Matters?
ABSTRACT The paper investigates the controversial relationship between firms' earnings quality and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, focusing on the energy and utility sectors given their significant regulatory pressures, environmental impact, and capital‐intensive nature, which render ESG performance particularly important for ...
Antonios Persakis +2 more
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Reporting ESG Initiatives and Gender Diversity in Germany: Implications for Stock Liquidity
ABSTRACT Adopting multiple theoretical perspectives, this study separately and jointly examines the impacts of reporting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives and gender diversity in boardrooms on corporate stock liquidity. Using a sample of non‐financial firms listed on the Frankfurt CDAX from 2010 to 2023, the study investigates ...
Ahmed Hassanein, Nader Elsayed
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Empirical analysis of the correlation between China's Macroeconomic Market and Crude Oil Market based on mixed-frequency group factor model. [PDF]
Zhao J, Yin J.
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ABSTRACT This paper studies herding and anti‐herding behaviour in three European stock markets before and during the Covid‐19 pandemic by employing both static and dynamic analysis. We examine four different questions related to herding behaviour: (i) Did herding behaviour increase during the pandemic? (ii) Does herding behaviour respond differently in
Dimitrios Asteriou +3 more
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Economic Welfare, Food Prices, and Sectoral Food Waste: A Structural Analysis Across the European Union. [PDF]
Vărzaru AA.
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Sustainability Performance and Corporate Risk: Evidence From the Tourism Industry
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of sustainability performance (Refinitiv Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG] scores) on corporate risk (CR). We apply stakeholder theory and the resource‐based view to an international sample of 247 tourism firms from 2002 to 2018.
Omneya Abdelsalam +4 more
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Dynamic forecasting of China's carbon market prices by the coupling of macroeconomic indicators and LSTM model. [PDF]
Wang Y, Huo H, Liu X, Song F, Huang S.
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Mergers and Acquisitions and Brexit: A Natural Experiment
ABSTRACT We study the impact of Brexit uncertainty on one of the most important forms of corporate investment: mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Brexit provides us with an ideal natural experiment to explore the real effects of economic uncertainty and understand the underlying transmission mechanism. We document a significant decline in the number of M&
Di Luo +3 more
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