Introduction: Financial Implications of Regulations in the Energy Industry -- Environmental Regulatory Arbitrage by Business Groups in the Context of the European Union's Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) -- Measuring the Effects of Energy Efficiency Policies: Evidence from Turkish Manufacturing...

Investors and policy-makers still know little about the dynamics of initial coin offerings (ICOs) as a funding mechanism. Investors' decisions to contribute to ICOs are essentially a leap of faith given ICOs' decentralized nature coupled with the lack of regulatory oversight. Drawing on...

Chapter 1. Introduction (James Thewissen) -- Part I. Energy Resources and ESG Criteria: Demand and Supply Issues -- Chapter 2. The Causal Relationship Between ESG and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Panel of Commonwealth Independent States (Nermin Yasar Baskaraagac) -- Chapter 3....

By analyzing the influence of labor unions on the narrative content of corporate disclosures, we provide empirical evidence that managers deflate the tone of earnings press releases in order to convey to unions a less optimistic image of firm financial performance. We find that the tone of the...