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Company specific determinants of greenhouse gases disclosures
Chithambo, Lyton; Tauringana, Venancio - In: Journal of applied accounting research 15 (2014) 3, pp. 323-338
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Company specific determinants of greenhouse gases disclosures
Chithambo, Lyton; Tauringana, Venancio - In: Journal of Applied Accounting Research 15 (2014) 3, pp. 323-338
companies and uses the disclosure index to quantify GHG disclosures made in the annual reports, sustainability reports and web … change their disclosure policy as the importance of GHG increases. The results imply that policy makers need to take into … disclosure. The study also provides evidence that the effect of some company-specific factors on GHG disclosures differ depending …
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The role of financial variables in predicting economic activity
Espinoza, Raphael; Fornari, Fabio; Lombardi, Marco J. - 2009
Previous research has shown that the US business cycle leads the European cycle by a few quarters, and can therefore help predicting euro area GDP. We investigate whether financial variables provide additional predictive power. We use a VAR model of the US and the euro area GDPs and extend it to...
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Financial variables and macroeconomic forecast errors
Barnes, Michelle L.; Olivei, Giovanni P. - 2017
A large set of financial variables has only limited power to predict a latent factor common to the year-ahead forecast errors for real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, the unemployment rate, and Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation for three sets of professional forecasters: the Federal...
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Forecasting recessions with financial variables and temporal dependence
Chu, Pyung Kun - In: Economies 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-14
Extending earlier research on forecasting recessions with financial variables, I examine the importance of additional financial variables and temporal dependence for recession prediction. I show that both additional financial variables, in particular, the Treasury bill spread, default yield...
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Tourism industry as a competitive advantage of Greece during and after the economic crisis: Financial analysis of selected hotel and shipping companies
Michail, Pazarskis; Sofia, Kourtesi; Christos, … - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 12 (2023) 1, pp. 29-51
The tourism industry is very important to the economic prosperity of a country, even in a period of economic crisis. In last decade, tourism industry of Greece, which contributes significantly to the country's economy, faced many problems challenges during the economic crisis. To shed light on...
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Explaining Differences in the Domestic Savings Ratio Across Countries: A Panel Data Study
Hussein, Khaled A.; Thirlwall, A.P. - 1999
This paper seeks to analyse the major determinants of differences in the domestic savings ratio between countries using panel data for 62 countries over the period 1967-1995. A basic distinction is made between the determinants of the capacity to save and the willingness to save. The capacity to...
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Finance-specific Factors as Drivers of Cross-border Investment: An OLI Perspective
Forssbaeck, Jens; Oxelheim, Lars - 2008
In this paper we empirically test the role of firm-specific financial characteristics as drivers of international investment and production. We hypothesize that financial strength generates advantages that can be exploited through cross-border investment activity. The hypothesis is tested in a...
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Financial Variables and the Conduct of Monetary Policy
Goodhart, Charles; Hofmann, Boris - 2000
This paper analyses the role of financial variables in the conduct of monetary policy. In the baseline model for the analysis of interest rules, the inflation rate depends on the output gap, which is solely determined by its own lags and the lagged short-term real interest rate. However, from a...
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South African stock return predictability in the context data mining : the role of financial variables and international stock returns
Gupta, Rangan; Modise, Mampho P. - In: Economic modelling 29 (2012) 3, pp. 908-916
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