This paper investigates banks' corporate social responsibility. The credit market is composed of two sectors: one for standard and one for ethical projects. Since ethical banks are committed to investing in ethical projects, standard and ethical banks compete in the market for ethical projects....

Both borrowers and lenders can be socially responsible (SR). Ethical banks commit to financing only ethical projects, which have social profitability but lower expected revenues than standard projects. Instead, no credible commitment exists for SR borrowers. The matching between SR borrowers and...

Mutual funds must publish policies announcing how they generally vote on the different ballot items at the shareholder meetings of their portfolio firms. I manually collect 17,000 of these policies for a sample of 29 of the largest U.S. mutual fund families over 2006-2018. I find that voting...

The relationship between Earnings Management (EM) and Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) has raised a considerable number of attentions, especially, in financial and accounting field since they determine firms' performance as well as market positioning. On the contrary, in an emerging...

Theoretically, corporate social responsibility (CSR) can have both positive and negative effects on stock price crash risk, and the empirical evidence is mixed. CSR can be a useful signal of better informational quality and acts as an effective corporate governance mechanism, both of which serve...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Circular Economy research: From theory to practice -- Chapter 3: Conceptualization of Circular Economy 3.0: synthesizing the 10Rs hierarchy of value retention options -- Chapter 4: Working with new conceptualization of Circular Economy 3.0 -- Chapter 5: The...