Do Corporate ESG Disclosures Drive Consumer Demand (Sales)? The Role of Environmental Sensitivity
ABSTRACT The question of whether strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure largely benefits high‐demand customers or if it generates value across all sales levels is yet to be empirically verified. This study, therefore, examines how ESG performance influences consumer demand (sales outcomes) among listed firms across African ...
Idorenyin J. Okon +2 more
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Degrees-of-Freedom Approximations for Conditional-Mean Inference in Random-Lot Stability Analysis. [PDF]
Karl AT, Rushing H, Burdick RK, Hofer J.
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Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?
ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim +2 more
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Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic storms. [PDF]
Sivadas N +6 more
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Do Commodity Prices and Energy Markets Drive Asymmetric Volatility in Biodiversity Finance?
ABSTRACT This study examines symmetric and asymmetric volatility spillovers among biodiversity finance, commodity prices, and energy markets using daily data from 2019 to 2025. We apply the Diebold–Yilmaz time–domain connectedness model, Baruník–Křehlík frequency–domain decomposition, and an asymmetric spillover framework.
Ijaz Younis +4 more
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Neural Bayes estimation and selection of complex bivariate extremal dependence models. [PDF]
André LM, Wadsworth JL, Huser R.
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Diversity, Inclusion, and Firm Performance: The Corporate Innovation Channel
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether corporate innovation—measured both as general innovative output and as environmental innovation—mediates the relationship between diversity and inclusion (D&I) and corporate financial performance (CFP). Prior research has documented positive, negative, and null associations between D&I and financial outcomes, but ...
Eleonora Monaco +3 more
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Modeling engineering and medical lifetime data using a flexible extension of the XShanker distribution under censoring. [PDF]
Hassan AS +3 more
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ABSTRACT ESG ratings, and in particular environmental scores (E‐scores), are becoming increasingly relevant for financial stability and capital allocation decisions. This paper investigates the relationship between corporate environmental performance and market risk, as measured through value at risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES), the key metrics ...
Matilda Shini +3 more
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Enlarging viral mutation estimation: a view from the distribution of mutation rates. [PDF]
Furuyama TN +3 more
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