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Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni, Lucio Masserini, Zeila Occhipinti, Roberto Verona   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of Liberalization in Trade and Finance on Production Volatility in Iranian Economy [PDF]

Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2012
In recent decades, the policies of financial and trade liberalization have been considered in most of the world countries, and there are different experiences in this regard.
Mohsen Ebrahimi, Hamid Reza Larti
doaj  

Trade Realignments and the Need for Integrated Modeling Research in Latin America's Agri‐Food Sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Emiliano Lopez Barrera
wiley   +1 more source

From Ship to Shore: A Review of Vessel‐To‐Grid Bidirectional Charging for Sustainable Maritime Transport

EcoEnergy, EarlyView.
As maritime transport electrifies, bidirectional charging (V2G) offers a dual‐purpose solution for energy resilience and economic viability. This work identifies key technological advancements and lifecycle challenges utilizing practical case studies to demonstrate how V2G systems can drive decarbonization and grid stability in the marine sector ...
Jonathan Bloor, Tamer Kamel, Sarah Fear, Lee J. Durndell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade liberalization, city size, and urban wage premium: evidence from China’s city and individual micro-data

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
In the context of trade liberalization and new urbanization, it is important to study how urban openness leads to wage premiums and improvements in income distribution. This paper utilizes micro-data from the Chinese Household Income Project and matching
Wenwu Zhang, Jiayin Wang, Xi Ou
doaj   +1 more source

Trade liberalization, oil shocks and environmental quality: The case study of oil exporting and importing countries [PDF]

علوم محیطی, 2018
Introduction: Given the role of the environment and free trade to achieve sustainable development in recent years, in this study, we survey the effect of trade liberalization on the quality of the environment. In simple words, the removal or reduction of
Seyed Komail Tayebi, Fariba Sadat Aghili, Leila Allahdadian   +2 more
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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon, M. G. Elsinga, J. S. C. M. Hoekstra, M. Sunikka‐Blank, R. Galvin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The foreign trade liberalization and export of agri-food products of Serbia

Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2017
Liberalization of the market, as a consequence of the achieved trade agreements with the members of the European Union and the Central European Free Trade Association, had a significant effect on the foreign trade exchange of the Serbian agri-food ...
Bojan MATKOVSKI, Koviljko LOVRE, Stanislav ZEKIC   +2 more
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Electricity Price Prediction Using Multikernel Gaussian Process Regression Combined With Kernel‐Based Support Vector Regression

Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a new hybrid model for predicting German electricity prices. The algorithm is based on a combination of Gaussian process regression (GPR) and support vector regression (SVR). Although GPR is a competent model for learning stochastic patterns within data and for interpolation, its performance for out‐of‐sample data is not ...
Abhinav Das, Stephan Schlüter, Lorenz Schneider   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source