This study documents a significant and positive impact of country-level sustainability scores on cross-border bank-to-nonbank flows. This result is robust after mitigating endogeneity concerns by applying instrumental variable regression, generalized method of moments estimation, Fama-MacBeth...

Using quarterly data over the period 1999Q1-2012Q1, this paper finds that the current account dynamics of Mauritius are adequately portrayed by a three-regime self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) model that leads to two current account equilibria, namely a high deficit of 9% and a low...

Imagination is more important than knowledge, but if intellect does not provide the needed logical structures, capacities for envisioning new possibilities are overly constrained. The sustainability problems we face today cannot be solved with the same kind of thinking that created them, but...

In the 1990s, the importance of international rating agencies became more pronounced among stakeholders who were interested in screening companies based on specific financial criteria. Now with a focus on sustainability, stakeholders are interested in screening companies on both financial and...

Работа посвящена выявлению основных факторов, определявших возникновение проблем у отдельных российских банков в кризис 2008-2009 гг. Как и в большинстве подобных...

This work is aligned with the Equator Principles that are minimum criteria for granting of credit to ensure that the funded projects are developed in a socially and environmentally responsible way. The objective of this paper is to verify the relevance of social and environmental variables...