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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Cost of Debt: Evidence From European Firms Under Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosure

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering the growing attention to sustainability and the increasing regulatory pressure in the European landscape, this study evaluates whether greenhouse gas emissions affect firms' cost of debt. A panel regression was conducted from 2021 to 2024 on two samples of European firms.
Daniela Cicchini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The EU Public Debt Synchronization: A Complex Networks Approach

open access: yesEconomies
This study examines the evolution of public debt among the 27 EU member states using Graph Theory tools; the Threshold Weighted–Minimum Dominating Set (TW–MDS) and the k-core decomposition method, alongside a standard network quantitative metric, the ...
Fotios Gkatzoglou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do ESG Leaders Achieve Higher Firm Financial Performance? The Influence of Women Directors and Controversial Industries

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Does Managerial Ability Improve Environmental Performance and Overall ESG Ratings? The Impact of the European Sustainability Reporting Mandate

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of managerial ability in driving environmental performance and overall environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings in the context of the European Union sustainability reporting regulations. Using a sample of 7242 firm‐year observations over the period 2015–2023, our results indicate a structural change in ...
Mihaela Ionașcu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign Green, Social, Sustainability and Sustainability-Linked Bonds as Public Finance Tools Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism

open access: yesPrzegląd Konstytucyjny
Future generations and the present-day youth inherit at least two debts (with incoming crises attached).
Robert Rybski
doaj   +1 more source

PIGS or Lambs? The European Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Role of Rating Agencies [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper asks whether rating agencies played a passive role or were an active driving force during Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We address this by estimating relationships between sovereign debt ratings and macroeconomic and structural variables. We
Griesbach, Bjoern   +2 more
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Impact of euro adoption in emerging European countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We study the impact of the euro on emerging European countries by investigating three country groups: (1) seventeen Eurozone countries, (2) seven eu Eastern and Central European (ECE) members using local currencies, and (3) six EU candidates.
Chitkushev, Lou, Vodenska, Irena
core   +1 more source

Green Talk, Costly Walk: The Financial Cost of Greenwashing

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined.
S. Taddeo, A. Regoli, O. Weber, R. Carè
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign Bankruptcy in the European Union in the Comparative Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper distinguishes four alternative sovereign debt resolution mechanisms: pure market solutions, modified market solutions, crisis lending by the IMF and other institutions, and the proposed Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM). It is hard
Leszek Balcerowicz
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