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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi +2 more
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Willingness to pay and the sovereign debt contract [PDF]
This paper uses a contract theory model to argue that covenants ruling debt renegotiations are important to assure the sovereign willingness to pay. The model includes the following features: first, collective action clauses, exit consents, aggregation ...
Roque B. Fernández +1 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez +3 more
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Default Costs, Willingness to Pay and Sovereign Debt Buybacks [PDF]
The arguments put forward by Bulow and Rogoff (1988, 1991) against sovereign debt buybacks are re-examined in a willingness-to-pay framework. This paper argues that the Bulow-Rogoff framework treats default by a debtor as an event with no dead-weight ...
Jonathan P. Thomas
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Complex Firms, Controversial Outcomes: Global Evidence on ESG Failures and Remedies
ABSTRACT We examine whether business complexity increases firms' exposure to negative environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes, specifically ESG controversies, using a global panel of firms from 37 countries over the period 2002–2021.
Abongeh A. Tunyi +3 more
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Sovereign Debt in the Americas: New Data and Stylized Facts [PDF]
In this paper, we introduce the first comprehensive database on sovereign debt systematically compiled to ensure comparability, for all countries in the Americas, and use this new data to highlight the main stylized facts regarding sovereign debt for ...
Kevin Cowan +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines how the European Union Emissions Trading System allowance prices reshape the link between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and firms' growth expectations, measured by Tobin's Q. Using a panel of 1370 listed firms across 15 European countries from 2005 to 2024 and high‐dimensional fixed‐effects models, we first ...
Adrián Ferreras
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A common risk factor in global credit and equity markets: An exploratory analysis of the subprime and the sovereign-debt crises. [PDF]
Corzo T +4 more
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Sovereign-debt Renegotiations: A Strategic Analysis [PDF]
The process of debt-rescheduling between a creditor and a sovereign (LDC) debtor is modeled as a noncooperative game built on a one-sector growth model.
Robert W. Rosenthal, Raquel Fernandez
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