This paper investigates the different effects of competition and securitization on US bank efficiency between 2001 and 2019. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and a two-step dynamic Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation, we find that higher securitization increases banks’ cost...

We explain the determinants of corporate green investments (GI) by using a series of both firm- and country-level factors. Employing environmental expenditures as a proxy for green investments at the firm level, we find that larger firms tend to invest more in green projects, whereas firms that...

We examine how the ownership of lead venture capital firms (VCs) evolves after their portfolio companies (PCs) are publicly listed. The VC investment period before the IPO, the VC age, the PC age, and the percentage change in the post-IPO stock price all incentivize earlier VC exit. Lead VCs...

Chapter 1. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fast Fashion’s Fate: Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability, and the Apparel Industry -- Chapter 3. Artificial Intelligence and the Global Automotive Industry -- Chapter 4. The Emergence of the Nighttime...