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Climate Regulation and ESG Disclosure in Maritime Transport

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether climate policy signals influence ESG disclosure quality in maritime transport, a capital‐intensive industry responsible for roughly 3% of global CO₂ emissions. Using panel data from 126 listed shipping firms between 2009 and 2023, we construct an author‐based disclosure quality index and treat the IMO's 2018 ...
Xakousti Afroditi Merika, Theodore Syriopoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endogenous Uncertainty: Does Investment Inefficiency Contributes to Uncertainty?

Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan
We investigate the endogenous relationship between firm-level investments and macro-level uncertainty for U.S publicly listed firms from 1996 Q1 to 2019 Q4. Based on the Vector AutoRegressive analysis, we learn that underinvestment tends to increase news-
Rita Juliana, Irwan Adi Ekaputra, Zaäfri Ananto Husodo, Sung suk Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Traffic Congestion on Labour Investment Efficiency

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study examines the effects of headquarters‐city traffic congestion on labour investment efficiency. The results indicate that firms headquartered in congested cities may engage in inefficient labour investment decisions. Further analysis indicates that the inefficiency is associated with both overinvestment and underinvestment in labour ...
Rajib Chowdhury
wiley   +1 more source

Second chance capex: Investment efficiency following credit forbearance

International Review of Economics & Finance
Using a unique data set on forbearance agreements, I study the relationship between credit forbearance and firm investment policy and find evidence that firms invest more efficiently after lenders forbear a credit default.
Patrick Gosselin
doaj   +1 more source

Do Transparent Firms Generate Greener Ideas? ESG and Green Patents in China

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using Patent Application Data from the State Intellectual Property Office of China, we examine the relationship between ESG information disclosure and firms' environmental innovation, using more than 3500 listed firms. Methodologically, we develop a micro‐founded structural model, which maps directly to relevant empirical regressions.
Athanasios Andrikopoulos, Panayotis G. Michaelides, Guanxia Xie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

OVERINVESTMENT IN POLISH AGRICULTURE [PDF]

, 2020
Jagoda Zmyślona, Arkadiusz Sadowski
openaire   +1 more source

Measuring the Stringency of Building Height Regulations

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a novel methodology to measure the stringency of building height regulations. This measure gauges the difference in building heights with and without regulations. The primary challenge is to recover unobserved building heights in the absence of regulations.
Yusuke Adachi
wiley   +1 more source

A Horse Race of Machine‐Learning Methods to Predict Banking Crises

International Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To examine if one machine‐learning model can consistently elucidate financial vulnerabilities, both over time and across levels of development, this paper applies 13 machine‐learning algorithms to evaluate comparative forecasting performance across several banking crises.
Emile du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Overinvestment in Farms Affect Their Technical Efficiency? A Case Study from Poland

Agriculture
Farm overinvestment is highly dangerous in how it affects productivity and profitability. Therefore, it imperatively needs to be measured in the context of investment support offered under the Common Agricultural Policy.
Jagoda Zmyślona, Arkadiusz Sadowski, Krzysztof Piotr Pawłowski   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lost in the Noise: How IPO Suspensions Distract Venture Capitalists From Monitoring Portfolio Firms

Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how regulatory suspensions of initial public offerings (IPOs) affect venture capitalists’ (VCs’) post‐IPO monitoring of portfolio firms in China. Using a difference‐in‐differences design that exploits three major IPO suspension episodes as quasi‐natural experiments, we provide causal evidence that these shocks divert VCs’ attention ...
Ao Li, Yue Pan, Gary Gang Tian, Pengdong Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source