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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practice and firm performance : an international evidence
Shaikh, Imlak - In: Journal of business economics and management 23 (2022) 1, pp. 218-237
This article attempts to bring quantitative evidence of a firm's sustainability reporting in terms of non-financial voluntary disclosures. The disclosures are made available through the annual report and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) report. ESG...
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Performance and Governance in Microfinance Institutions
Mersland, Roy - 2010
a self-constructed global dataset on MFIs collected from third-party rating agencies. Using random effects panel data …
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Investor-Stock Decoupling in Mutual Funds
Ferreira, Miguel A. - 2016
We investigate whether mutual funds whose investors and stocks are decoupled (i.e., investor location does not coincide with that of the stock holdings) benefit from a natural hedge as they have fewer outflows during market downturns and fewer inflows during upturns. Using a sample of equity...
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Sources of Financing, Profitability and Productivity : First Evidence from Matched Firms
Mallick, Sushanta; Yang, Yong - 2021
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the effects of firm-level financing patterns on their profitability and productivity, contributing to two related literatures: (i) should the link between financial development and growth be conducted at a firm level? (ii) which type of financing...
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The Impact of CEO Long-Term Equity-Based Compensation Incentives on Economic Growth in Collectivist Versus Individualist Countries
Campbell, Cynthia J. - 2016
This study examines the impact of the prevalence of long-term equity-based CEO compensation incentives on GDP growth, and we address the moderating role of individualist versus collectivist cultures on this relationship. We argue long-term incentives given to CEOs in some firms may convey to...
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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms
Aghion, Philippe; Fally, Thibault; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2021
Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creative destruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping this process, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms' decision to enter, to expand if successful and to exit...
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Macroeconomic, institutional and bank-specific determinants of non-performing loans in emerging market economies : a dynamic panel regression analysis
Bayar, Yılmaz - In: Journal of central banking theory and practice 8 (2019) 3, pp. 95-110
emerging market economies over the 2000-2013 period by employing the system GMM dynamic panel data estimator. Results of the … dynamic panel regression analysis showed that economic growth, inflation, economic freedom (institutional development), return …
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The impact of macroeconomic and institutional environment on NPL of developing and developed countries
Goyal, Shikha; Singhal, Nikita; Mishra, Nandita; Verma, … - In: Future Business Journal 9 (2023), pp. 1-15
-level panel data of Developing nations for the period extending from 2010 to 2020, the author used panel system GMM methodology …. The long-held hypothesis that NPLs contribute to economic growth is tested using the Panel Granger causality test. Further … panel cointegration tests were run to see whether the two variables have a long-term relationship. According to the study …
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Are forced turnovers good or bad news?
Kind, Axel; Schläpfer, Yves - 2011
To gain insights about the quality of board's firing decisions, we investigate abnormal stock returns and operating performance around CEO-turnover announcements in a new hand-collected sample of 208 "clean" turnover events between January 1998 and June 2009. Unlike the majority of previous...
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Economic growth and financial performance of Islamic banks : a CAMELS approach
Ledhem, Mohammed Ayoub; Mekidiche, Mohammed - In: Islamic economic studies 28 (2020) 1, pp. 47-62
. Design/methodology/approach - This study applied dynamic panel system GMM to estimate the impact of the financial performance …
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