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The impact of carbon disclosure mandates on emissions and financial operating performance
Downar, Benedikt; Ernstberger, Jürgen; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2020
We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the...
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Corporate carbon reduction pledges : an effective tool to mitigate climate change?
Comello, Stephen; Reichelstein, Julia; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2021
In the intensifying public debate about limiting the harmful effects of climate change, many global corporations have recently articulated so-called “net-zero” goals for reducing and ultimately eliminating their own greenhouse gas emissions. We first examine the details ofthe carbon...
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Climate protection potentials of digitalized production processes : microeconometric evidence?
Axenbeck, Janna; Niebel, Thomas - 2021
Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the …
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What drives the relationship between digitalization and industrial energy demand? : exploring firm-level heterogeneity
Axenbeck, Janna; Berner, Anne; Kneib, Thomas - 2022
The ongoing digital transformation has raised hopes for ICT-based climate protection within manufacturing industries, such as dematerialized products and energy efficiency gains. However, ICT also consume energy as well as resources, and detrimental effects on the environment are increasingly...
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Personality traits across the life cycle : disentangling age, period, and cohort effects
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Mena, Gary; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian; … - 2019
Despite the importance for socio-economic outcomes, there is an ongoing debate about the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. By disentangling age, period and cohort influences on personality traits, this paper adds to the existing empirical contributions, which often focus on...
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Speculative trade and market newcomers
Klishchuk, Bogdan - 2019
Arguing that in the real world relatively optimistic inexperienced investors are prey for relatively pessimistic veteran traders, we formalize this intuitive conjecture as a proven proposition in a simple model. This agreement to disagree leads to a perpetual bubble, in which more experienced,...
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Who shows solidarity with the irresponsible?
Bolle, Friedel; Costard, Jano - 2013
In the Solidarity game lucky winners of a lottery can transfer part of their income to unlucky losers. Will losers get smaller transfers if they can be assumed to be responsible for their zero income because they have chosen riskier lotteries? Or will risk-lovers and riskaverters favor those who...
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Expectations of reciprocity when competitors share information : experimental evidence
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Holcomb, Alex; Myung, Noah - 2019
Informal exchange of information among competitors has been well-documented in a variety of industries, and one …'s expectation of reciprocity shown to be a key determinant. We use an indeterminate horizon centipede game to establish a feedback … stronger effect on information ows than reducing environmental uncertainty (about the competitor's ability). We further show …
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The moderating effect of fuel prices on the market value of fuel efficiency, driving intensity, and Co2 emissions
Klapper, Daniel; Pleshcheva, Vlada - 2019
In the current paper, we quantify the effect that fuel prices have on vehicle prices' responsiveness to fuel economy. We apply a hedonic price model to the German automobile market by using data on detailed technical specifications of high-sales vehicles of three sequential model years. In the...
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Energy use patterns in German manufacturing since 2003
Graevenitz, Kathrine von; Rottner, Elisa - 2020
The manufacturing sector accounts for a substantial share of German GDP, employment and carbon emissions. Therefore, the manufacturing sector's energy use and carbon emissions are of crucial importance for reaching Germany's climate goals. In this paper, we analyse energy use patterns in German...
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