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Buffering Volatility : A Study on the Limits of Germany’s Energy Revolution

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2016

Squaring hourly demand and wind-solar production data for Germany and a number of neighbouring countries with the … results of the EU's ESTORAGE project, this paper studies the limits of Germany's energy revolution in view of the volatility …, Norwegian hydro-dam buffering and international diversification via grid expansion. If Germany operated in autarchy and tried to …

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Mandated Financial Reporting and Corporate Innovation

Breuer, Matthias - 2019

's regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing a greater share of firms to publicly disclose their …

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The Information Content of Corporate Earnings : Evidence from the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Binz, Oliver; Graham, John R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine whether the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 increased the information content of corporate earnings disclosures. Prior research questions whether the Act improved disclosure quality but generally relies on long-window tests and yields mixed results. We focus on whether the Act...

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The Real Effects of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Emissions : Evidence from the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

Yang, Lavender; Muller, Nicholas Z.; Liang, Pierre Jinghong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine the real effects of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) on electric power plants in the United States. Starting in 2010, the GHGRP requires both the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by facilities emitting more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year to the...

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Measuring Firm Environmental Performance to Inform Asset Management and Standardized Disclosure

Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Investing according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is gaining momentum. Most environmental performance indices focus only on the tonnage of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. This paper proposes an index covering eight pollutants expressed in monetary damage. Inclusion of...

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Testing the Effectiveness of Consumer Financial Disclosure : Experimental Evidence from Savings Accounts

Adams, Paul D. - 2019

Disclosure--the practice of providing information to support decision making--has been widely mandated in public policy but is routinely ignored by consumers and subject to obfuscation by firms. Yet most evidence on the effectiveness of consumer financial disclosure stems from lab experiments...

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Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing

Ali, S. Nageeb - 2019

A concern central to the economics of privacy is that firms may use consumer data to price discriminate. A common response is that consumers should have control over their data and the ability to choose how firms access it. Since firms draw inferences based on both the data seen as well as the...

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Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas

Fetter, T. Robert - 2018

In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firms' claims that disclosure...

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How to Talk When a Machine is Listening : Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI

Cao, Sean - 2020

This paper analyzes how corporate disclosure has been reshaped by machine processors, employed by algorithmic traders, robot investment advisors, and quantitative analysts. Our findings indicate that increasing machine and AI readership, proxied by machine downloads, motivates firms to prepare...

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Imperfect Regulatory Oversight : Theory and Evidence from Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures

de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne - 2020

This paper develops and tests a model in which 1) purpose-driven firms emerge as an optimal organizational form even for profit-maximizing entrepreneurs; and 2) CSR arises endogenously as a response to imperfect regulatory oversight. Purpose-driven organizations allow entrepreneurs to create...

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