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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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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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Bad Politicians

Caselli, Francesco; Morelli, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We present a simple theory of the quality of elected officials. Quality has (at least) two dimensions: competence and … lower than the market wages of high-quality citizens (competence), and/or because they reap higher returns from holding …

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Demand learning and firm dynamics: evidence from exporters

Berman, Nicolas; Rebeyrol, Vincent; Vicard, Vincent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper provides evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a simple … model with Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand parameter in each of the markets … their beliefs following a new demand shock, the younger they are. To test this learning mechanism, we make use of a specific …

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On the Genesis of Multinational Foreign Affiliate Networks

Egger, Peter; Fahn, Matthias; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

correlated learning may render it optimal to enter markets sequentially – an investment in market A is only followed by entry in …, we identify correlated learning across markets beyond alternative explanations as a key driver of gradualism in the …

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Learning From Stock Prices and Economic Growth

Peress, Joël - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

A competitive stock market is embedded into a neoclassical growth economy to analyze the interplay between the acquisition of information about firms, its partial revelation through stock prices, capital allocation and income. The stock market allows investors to share their costly private...

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Political Uncertainty and Risk Premia

Pástor, Luboš; Veronesi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the pricing of political uncertainty in a general equilibrium model of government policy choice. We find that political uncertainty commands a risk premium whose magnitude is larger in poorer economic conditions. Political uncertainty reduces the value of the implicit put protection...

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