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Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang +5 more
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Contextus, 2012 This paper aims to analyze financial investments available in the four largest financial institutions in the Brazil, in theperiod from 2005 to 2008, to identify whether the applications in pension fund plan provided higher returns comparedto those ...
Namilton Nei Coelho +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan +3 more
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Governance and Investment of Public Pension Reserve Funds in Selected OECD Countries [PDF]
OECD Working Papers on Insurance and Private Pensions, 2008 Many countries around the world are partly prefunding their otherwise pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financed social security systems by establishing or further developing existing public pension reserve funds (PPRFs). Most OECD countries have put in place internal and external governance mechanisms and investment controls to ensure the sound management of these
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While signalling theory predicts that ESG disclosure reduces information asymmetry and supports forward‐looking firm valuation, this relationship remains contested in emerging markets with concentrated ownership. Using a panel of 84 Turkish listed firms over 2014–2024 (924 firm‐years) and two‐step system GMM, we examine whether business groups,
Ajab Khan +2 more
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On the Need for Prevention in the Pension System on the Example of the Demographic Reserve Fund [PDF]
Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2010 On the Need for Prevention in the Pension System on the Example of the Demographic Reserve Fund The subject of this paper is the Demographic Reserve Fund (DRF) which was established following the November 11th 1998 legal act of on the system of social security.
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Contextual Factors Impacting Different Stages of Voluntary Occupational Change: The Case of Turkey
The Career Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Occupational change has become increasingly common in recent decades. However, we know little about how contextual factors shape the voluntary occupational change process. By integrating the Careers in Context Framework (Mayrhofer et al. 2007) and the Transtheoretical Model of Career Change (Barclay et al.
Duygu Gulseren +5 more
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Pension reserve fund, political budget cycles and fiscal illusion
European Journal of Political Economy, 2019 Abstract We model political manipulations of pension reserve funds in a modified Shi and Svensson (2006) political budget cycle (PBC) model. Assuming that a share of voters suffers from fiscal illusion the incumbent can increase her re-election chances by prematurely spending parts of the reserve fund. We also obtain results that are counterintuitive,
Xue Wang, Frank Bohn
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CEO Overconfidence, Industry Competition, and ESG Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay among CEO overconfidence, industry competition, and firms' ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance. With the growing importance of ESG management, firms are investing more in ESG initiatives as a strategic approach to mitigating downside risk. However, overconfident CEOs, characterized by their
Taehyung Kim, Jaeseog Na
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Mechanisms of funding projects in the field of waste management
Russian Journal of Economics and LawObjective: to identify and analyze the economic effectiveness of the main financial tools and financing mechanisms in the field of waste management in Russia.Methods: economic and statistical analysis, systematic approach, generalization, comparison ...
O. V. Kudryavtseva, S. V. Vasiliev
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