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How Do Carbon Emissions Affect the Performance of Listed Latin American Firms? The Moderating Effect of Financial Slack

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the association between carbon emissions and financial performance in Latin American firms. The scientific literature on this topic is limited, with little evidence available in this geographical region. This study aims to address this research gap by testing hypotheses focused on analysing how Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon ...
Ana Isabel Mendieta‐Callirgos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Carbon Strategy Enhance Corporate Productivity? Evidence From Carbon Risk and Opportunity Management

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign Credit Rating Announcement Effects on Foreign Currency Denominated Bond and Equity Markets in Africa

Journal of African Business, 2019
This study investigates the net effect of sovereign credit rating announcements on long-term foreign currency denominated bonds and stock markets in 19 African countries over the period of 1994 to 2014.
Misheck Mutize, Sean Gossel
exaly   +2 more sources

Are credit rating agencies users of government accounting information? Evidence from the sovereign rating process

Public Money and Management
IMPACT Sovereign governments are regularly evaluated by credit rating agencies (CRAs) that perform an analysis of creditworthiness based on mostly public data.
Claudio Columbano
exaly   +2 more sources

Access to Credit by Firms and Sovereign Credit Rating Stability

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
This paper studies the impact of the number of sovereign credit rating and outlook changes on the access to credit by firms. The data sample consists of 127,000 firms from 139 countries surveyed by World Bank over the period, 2006 to 2016. An ordered logit model is used as a primary tool for empirical analysis.
Yasir Riaz   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Impact of Sovereign Credit Rating News on Credit Default Swap Spreads

Journal of East-West Business, 2022
This paper explores the impact of sovereign credit rating news from three credit rating agencies, namely Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poors, on credit default swaps (CDS).
Övünç Gürsoy, Emin Avci
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Politicians and sovereign credit ratings

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Using a unique hand collected sample of professional connections between finance ministers and the directors and top executives of the three largest credit rating agencies for 38 European sovereigns between January 2000 and November 2017, we show that professional connections result in higher sovereign ratings.
Patrycja Klusak   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Determinants of Estonian sovereign credit rating [PDF]

open access: possible, 2001
The paper focuses on sovereign credit ratings assigned to Estonia and analyses their possible determinants. The first chapter gives an overview of different rating agencies and the methodology they use in rating process. Besides that the interpretation, comparability and explanatory power of different ratings are analysed.
Andres Vesilind   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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