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Do Major Customers Affect Firms' Environmental, Social and Governance Activities?

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the role of major customers in shaping firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. We find that firms with major customer relationships undertake fewer ESG activities compared to those without such ties. The association is attenuated when institutional ownership is high, firms are less diversified, customers exhibit
Feng Dong, John A. Doukas, Stephanie Walton, Rongyao Gloria Zhang, Yiyang Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Driver Situation Awareness for Regaining Control from Conditionally Automated Vehicles: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies. [PDF]

Hum Factors
Tan X, Zhang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
wiley   +1 more source

A labeled synthetic mobile money transaction dataset. [PDF]

Data Brief
Azamuke D, Katarahweire M, Bainomugisha E.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mergers and Acquisitions as Navigators of Climate Policy Shocks: Evidence from the NOx Budget Trading Program

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how mergers and acquisitions (M&As) enable firms to adapt to climate policy shocks. Exploiting the adoption of the Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Budget Trading Program (NBP) across US states as an exogenous shock, we find that firms with NOx‐emitting plants subject to the NBP are more likely to engage in M&As, particularly through vertical ...
Samer Adra, Yang Gao, Malika Hamadi, Jiayi Yuan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Relationship Between Drivers' Stationary Gaze Entropy and Situation Awareness in a Level-3 Automation Driving Simulation. [PDF]

Proc Hum Factors Ergon Soc Annu Meet
Ding W, Murzello Y, Cao S, Samuel S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Share Repurchases and Investment Policies

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our study examines the claim that share repurchases lead to reductions in real investments. Repurchase opponents argue that managers forego valuable investments to conduct opportunistic repurchases, while proponents argue that repurchases return excess cash to shareholders.
Paul Brockman, Hye Seung (Grace) Lee, Jesus M. Salas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation and Characterization of Four New Coliphages against Extra Intestinal Pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolates Recovered from Cystic Fibrosis Patients. [PDF]

ACS Omega
García-González G, García-Pérez JM, Martinez Flores PD, Rivera Ríos R, Espinoza-Mellado MDR, Velázquez-Guadarrama N, Encinas Basurto DA, Juárez J, López Mata MA, Eslava-Campos CA, Rodea GE.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Early‐Life Disaster Exposure and the Investment Response to Monetary Policy

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We place CEOs' formative experiences at the center of analyzing how firms respond to monetary policy. Specifically, we examine how early‐life exposure to natural disasters shapes CEOs’ investment behavior following monetary shocks. CEOs with exposure to moderate natural disasters during their formative years exhibit stronger risk‐taking ...
Samer Adra, Yang Gao, Elie Menassa, Jiayi Yuan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epilogue to the war: Afghanistan reports the lowest well-being in recorded history. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Stutzman LD, Lun P, Yang M, Chan K, Cheung F.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source