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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...

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Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability : a taxonomy of assumptions and results

Asheim, Geir B. - 2002

This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability … combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how …

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A market mechanism for sustainable and efficient resource use under uncertainty

Quaas, Martin F.; Winkler, Ralph - 2017 - This version: June 2017

Sustainability and efficiency are potentially conflicting social objectives in natural resource management. We propose … determines the maximal tenure length guaranteeing that the sustainability goal is obeyed for sure over the entire period. In …

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The greener, the higher : labor demand of automotive firms during the green transformation

Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024

We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...

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The circular economy

Fullerton, Don - 2024

Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...

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Sustainable banking and credit market segmentation

Kelly, David L.; Paik, Christopher - 2024

We assess the feasibility, optimality, and policy implications of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG)-linked or “green” lending in a credit market where banks incorporate such non-financial data in credit allocation decisions. We identify an asymmetric information problem:...

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Do retail investors value environmental impact? : a lab-in-the-field experiment with crowdfunders

Siemroth, Christoph; Hornuf, Lars - 2021

Are investors willing to give up a higher return if the investment generates positive environmental impact? We investigate this question with a decision experiment among crowdfunders, where they choose between a higher return or environmental impact. Overall, 65% of investors choose...

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The societal responses to Covid-19 : evidence from the G7 countries

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

of four main indexes: Solidarity (S), Agency (A), GDP (material Gain, G) and Environmental sustainability (E) - to …

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Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets

Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2017

Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the … sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an … genuine savings and the sustainability prospects of future generations. …

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To consolidate or not to consolidate? : a multi-step analysis to assess needed fiscal sustainability

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar - 2022

specifically on their degree of success, notably in terms of fiscal sustainability. The "need" to consolidate is based on having a … primary balance above or below the debt-stabilizing primary balance (provided by the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis) for … each country. We then link the need for and the actual (historical) existence of fiscal adjustments to their sustainability …

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