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Corporate Social Responsibility and Managerial Entrenchment

Cespa, Giovanni; Cestone, Giacinta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

When stakeholder protection is left to the voluntary initiative of managers, relations with social activists may become an effective entrenchment strategy for inefficient CEOs. We thus argue that managerial turnover and firm value are increased by the institutionalization of stakeholder...

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Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance during the Financial Crisis

Lins, Karl; Servaes, Henri; Tamayo, Ane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the extent to which a firm’s social capital, as measured by the intensity of a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, affects firm performance during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. We find that high-CSR firms have crisis-period stock returns that are four to five...

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Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around The World

Edmans, Alex; Li, Lucius; Zhang, Chendi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the “Best Companies to Work For” in 14 countries. We show that employee satisfaction is associated with positive abnormal returns in countries with high labor market...

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Albuquerque, Rui; Durnev, Artyom; Koskinen, Yrjö - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper presents an industry equilibrium model where firms can choose to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. We model CSR activities as an investment in customer loyalty and show that CSR decreases systematic risk and increases firm value. These effects are stronger...

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Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives and Shareholder Wealth

Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Thorburn, Karin S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Researchers debate whether environmental investments reduce firm value or can actually improve financial performance. We provide some first evidence on shareholder wealth effects of voluntary corporate environmental initiatives. Companies announcing membership in Climate Leaders and Ceres - two...

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Platform Siphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content

Anderson, Simon P; Gans, Joshua - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

increases advertising clutter (leading to a potential downward spiral), may reduce total welfare and content quality, and can …

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Pricing and Information Disclosure in Markets with Loss-Averse Consumers

Karle, Heiko; Peitz, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We develop a theory of imperfect competition with loss-averse consumers. All consumers are fully informed about match value and price at the time they make their purchasing decision. However, a share of consumers are initially uncertain about their tastes and form a reference point consisting of...

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Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing

Eliaz, Kfir; Spiegler, Ran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study a market model in which competing firms use costly marketing devices to influence the set of alternatives which consumers perceive as relevant. Consumers in our model are boundedly rational in the sense that they have an imperfect perception of what is relevant to their decision...

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Content and Advertising in the Media: Pay-TV versus Free-To-Air

Peitz, Martin; Valletti, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We compare the advertising intensity and content of programming in a market with competing media platforms. With pay …-tv media platforms have two sources of revenues, advertising revenues and revenues from viewers. With free-to-air media … platforms receive all revenues from advertising. We show that if viewers strongly dislike advertising, the advertising intensity …

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Advertising and the Evolution of Market Structure in the US Car Industry

Geroski, Paul A; Mazzucato, Mariana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

, namely that industry concentration fell just at the same time as industry advertising expenditures rose sharply. Since both … stylized fact raises interesting questions about whether – and if so, how advertising affects entry. We use a model of consumer … switching behaviour to help interpret the facts. The model predicts a simple linear association between market and advertising …

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