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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
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores why businesses engage with the United Nations SDG agenda, with a view to understanding how managers construct the business case for the SDGs. Building on and extending the responsibility literature's discussion of the business case for responsibility, the article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing why ...
Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Gundelach
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A MODERN MICROECONOMIC APPROACH OF COMMERCE [PDF]
Business Excellence and Management, 2012 The most important steps taken in commerce, as consequences of the scientific and technical progress, are reflected in the sequence of the six major revolutions completed in this sector of activity: the emergence of large stores, the development of ...
Alexandru TRIFU
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The Unintended Consequences of Sugar‐Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Sales and Prices of Beer Beverages
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates the causal effect of Berkeley's sugar‐sweetened beverage (SSB) tax on beer purchases and prices using retail scanner data from 2014 to 2015. Applying both synthetic control and difference‐in‐differences (DID) approaches, we find that the tax reduced beer purchases within Berkeley by 8.9%, while having a negligible effect ...
Lei Pan, Xiaoyong Zheng
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International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.Abstract A key goal of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan is to establish a functioning bond market, offering businesses finance options beyond traditional bank loans and creating a stable source of financing for the real economy across the EU.
Maryam Malakotipour
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PHENOMENA AND BASIC MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR MEASUREMENTS [PDF]
Annals of the University of Petrosani: Economics, 2010 Macroeconomics is a separate discipline of the Economy that studies and analyzes the behaviour of economic aggregates and significant average, such as price level, national income, national income potential, the gap GDP, employment and unemployment of ...
PAULINA CATANA
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Industry Portfolio Volatility Connections and Industry Portfolio Returns
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper tracks dynamic connections that form among daily US industry portfolio return volatilities using a Bayesian time‐varying parameter VAR model. Market participants often focus on sectors to filter vast amounts of information, and this focus results in cross‐industry return predictability. We characterise connections that form over the
Michael Ellington +2 more
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Management and Microeconomics: A Historical Comparison between the British and the French Traditions
ŒconomiaThis article seeks to analyse the circumstances and the nature of the emergence of management research in economic analysis in the 1950s in Britain and France.
Lise Arena, Richard Arena
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Complete almost ideal demand system approach to the Czech alcohol demand
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2010 Tax interventions into alcohol beverages market are an important and recently discussed tool of the Czech fiscal policy. The impact of any such measure would be strongly dependent on the microeconomic behavior of the consumers.
Karel JANDA +2 more
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