Environmental disasters are thought to increase the focus on corporate sustainability in the communities where they … actions to construct measures of local corporate sustainability, we study this conjecture. To address the omitted variables … corporate environmental sustainability in the following year. The impact is not homogeneous across counties: it is significant …

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 …

This article attempts to bring quantitative evidence of a firm's sustainability reporting in terms of non …-market transnational sustainability strategy on firm performance. The study presents an analysis of nearly 510 firm's ESG scores across 17 …

; and introduces a corporate sustainability measure. Sustainable part of corporate social performance completely explains … that are irrelevant to sustainability have no effect on firm values. Moreover, sustainability-based hedge portfolios could …

The issuance of sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) has grown exponentially in recent years. Using a scoring methodology … effective incentives for improving corporate sustainability performance. We demonstrate that the majority of loans fails to meet … key requirements that would make them credible instruments for generating effective sustainability incentives. These …