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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Eccles, Robert G. - 2012

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...

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Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

Reinhardt, Forest L. - 2010

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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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

Bernheim, B. Douglas; Rangel, Antonio - 2021

This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...

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Exporting and Firm Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Atkin, David - 2014

producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance …

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Winning by Losing : Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Mergers

Malmendier, Ulrike - 2012

Do acquirors profit from acquisitions, or do CEOs overbid and destroy shareholder value? We propose a novel approach to measuring the long-run returns to mergers. In a new data set of close bidding contests we use losers' post-merger performance to construct the counterfactual performance of...

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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance : Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data

Fukao, Kyoji - 2010

acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of … acquisitions improved target firms%u2019 productivity and profitability significantly more and quicker than acquisitions by … domestic firms.Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms%u2019 profitability in the case of both …

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Asset Sales, Firm Performance, and the Agency Costs of Managerial Discretion

Poulsen, Annette B. - 2010

We argue that management sells assets when doing so provides the cheapest funds to pursue its objectives rather than for operating efficiency reasons alone. This hypothesis suggests that (1) firms selling assets have high leverage and/or poor performance, (2) a successful asset sale is good news...

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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany

Kaplan, Steven N. - 2021

This paper examines executive turnover -- both for management and supervisory boards - - and its relation to firm performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year -- implying that top executives in Germany have...

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Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution : A Survey of the Economic Literature

Hermalin, Benjamin E.; Weisbach, Michael S. - 2021

answering one of three questions: 1) How are board characteristics such as composition or size related to profitability? 2) How …

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Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency : Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John; Syverson, Chad - 2021

There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...

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