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Using a large sample of firms from 45 countries, we find that firms in countries with high climate risk reduce their cash dividends but increasingly use share repurchases to make payouts, suggesting that firms substitute dividends with repurchases to increase their payout flexibility in response...
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, multiple total stock return measures distinguishing dividend payouts from simple stock returns. Results suggest that both … explicit and implicit risks are positively related to dividend payouts and not to stock returns, while the overall effect on … exposure and, probably as a consequence, boards in carbon intensive companies use dividend policies to attract investment in …
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We document that climate uncertainty negatively affects corporate investment. The effect is more pronounced for firms with higher capital intensity, higher operating inflexibility, and less redeployable capital. Our results are robust to using an instrumental variable approach and to using...
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Using data from 41 different countries including the United States, we provide novel empiricalevidence that firms increase their cash holdings as a response to climate risk. This effect is drivenby financially constrained firms and becomes significantly stronger after the release of the...
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We examine how climate change affects bank fragility. We find both physical and transitional climate changes lead to substantial increase in systemic risk. The effect is more pronounced for banks with higher climate change exposure, higher loan portfolio synchronicity, and higher bank default...
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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...
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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...
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