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Colonnelli, Emanuele; McQuade, Timothy; Ramos, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We conduct a field experiment in partnership with the largest job platform in Brazil to study how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices of firms affect talent allocation. We find both an average job-seeker's preference for ESG and a large degree of heterogeneity across...

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Putting Global Governance in its Place

Rodrik, Dani - 2019

In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed to be an argument for greater global governance, but the logic requires scrutiny. There remains strong revealed demand for policy and institutional diversity among nations,...

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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide

Aksoy, Cevat G. - 2018

incumbent government among skilled individuals. Growth in high skill intensive imports has the opposite effect. High skill …

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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions

Ellis, Jesse - 2011

Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...

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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2010

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …

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Going Green in China : Firms’ Responses to Stricter Environmental Regulations

Fan, Haichao - 2019

This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan. Using a difference-in-differences...

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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

Cohen, Alma - 2018

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...

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

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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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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation

Kane, Edward J. - 1997

market failures and correct them. It is taken for granted that we may rely on a well-intentioned government to use its …

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On ESG Investing : Heterogeneous Preferences, Information, and Asset Prices

Goldstein, Itay; Kopytov, Alexandr; Shen, Lin; Xiang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing reshapes information aggregation by prices. We develop a rational expectations equilibrium model in which traditional and green investors are informed about financial and ESG risks but have different preferences over them. Because...

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