This paper examines the incidence of foreign control in Canadian non-financial industries. It focuses on changes in the share of assets and revenues under foreign control over a long-run period during which Canada's regulatory climate shifted from being more restrictive to more liberal in its...

Climate-related risks have increased in recent decades, both in terms of the frequency of extreme weather events (physical risk) and implementation of climate-change mitigation policies (transition risk). This paper explores whether multinational firms react to such risks by altering their...

It is often claimed that investment treaties will dissuade host countries from phasing out foreignowned CO2-intensive production. This paper uses a very simple economic framework to examine how such a problem might be alleviated through treaty reform, including increased carve-outs from...

This paper investigates the impact of temperature on operating revenue as a measure of economic output for more than a quarter of a million business group firms operating in 32 countries. For this purpose, we construct a novel global dataset that combines information on firm financials,...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly facing global environmental issues which require coordinated market and non-market strategic responses. This article analyses the strategic responses by US and European multinational enterprises in the oil industry to the global climate change...

This paper explores the international dimensions of multinationals' corporate political activities, focusing on an international issue - climate change - that is being implemented differently in a range of countries. Analyzing data from FT Global 500 firms, it examines the influence on types and...

Globalization and climate change have been among the hottest academic topics during the past couple of decades. However, in academic research the links between the two is virtually untouched. In this paper, we study the impacts of climatic factors on foreign manufacturing companies in Russia. In...

This study examines the relation between climate policy uncertainty (CPU) and corporate tax avoidance. Using a novel measure of CPU, we document that CPU is negatively related to effective taxes rates for both contemporary and future years. During higher levels of CPU, firms undertake aggressive...