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Investing according to environmental, social, and governance criteria is gaining momentum. Most environmental performance indices focus only on the tonnage of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This paper proposes a new monetary index covering eight pollutants. Inclusion of multiple pollutants...
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We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched … sample of 180 US companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993 - termed as … High Sustainability companies - exhibit by 2009 distinct organizational processes compared to a matched sample of companies …
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Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of quot;corporate social responsibilityquot; (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do firms have additional...
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I present a non-technical high-level review the concept of sustainability and the various approaches to quantifying it …
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We use matched employer-employee data from Sweden to study the role of the firm in affecting the stochastic properties …
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, the national pension system, employment security laws and centralized wage setting in Sweden reinforced the distortionary … neutral set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution is sharply tilted away from lower wage industries … establishments. Compared to other OECD economies, Sweden has the lowest rate of self employment, a dominant role for larger firms …
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sustainability along the metrics we study. Even in countries with high public debt, the penalty for activist discretionary fiscal …
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was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …
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analyze the sustainability of the fiscal policy. We pursue three approaches to examine the sustainability. First, we calculate …
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We test the hypothesis that net foreign asset positions are consistent with external solvency and examine the dynamics of external adjustment using data for 50 countries over the 1970-2006 period. Our analysis adapts Bohn's (2007) error-correction reaction function approach--which tests for a...
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