The study is intended to assess the accuracy and quality of climate-related disclosures by the companies on the Climate Disclosure Protocol (CDP) - A list. This is achieved by systematically grading the company-specific Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission inventory stated in the annual report as...

This study examines the impact of mandatory environmental information disclosure (EID) enforcement in China on corporate capital costs. The results indicate mandatory EID increases debt capital costs, but has no significant impact on equity capital costs, which differs from mainstream research...

We study whether the threat of exit by institutional investors can induce firms to voluntarily disclose their environmental policies. To address concerns about reverse causality and omitted variables, we implement a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to conduct our empirical tests. The...

This study examines whether the level of environmental disclosure in banks' financial reports matches less brown lending portfolios. Using granular credit register data and detailed information on firm-level greenhouse gas emission intensities, we find a negative relationship between...

Using confidential information on banks' portfolios, inaccessible to market participants, we show that banks that emphasize the environment in their disclosures extend a higher volume of credit to brown borrowers, without charging higher interest rates or shortening debt maturity. These results...