We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …

We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …

The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance of firms has been … intensively examined and debated in academics and politics, but the connection to innovation has so far lacked research attention …. This paper investigates whether CSR is complementary to environmental innovations, so that a joint introduction of both …

The link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance of firms has been … intensively examined and debated in academics and politics, but the connection to innovation has so far lacked research attention …. This paper investigates whether CSR is complementary to environmental innovations, so that a joint introduction of both …

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …