Does the implementation of green credit policy improve the ESG performance of enterprises? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

N Lei, Q Miao, X Yao - Economic Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
The extant literature has largely overlooked how green credit policy (GCP) affects corporate
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, which is important in assessing …

Conglomerate firms, internal capital markets, and the theory of the firm

V Maksimovic, GM Phillips - Annu. Rev. Financ. Econ., 2013 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the conglomerate literature, with a focus on recent papers that have cast
strong doubt on the hypothesis that conglomerate firms destroy value on average when …

Real effects of climate policy: Financial constraints and spillovers

SM Bartram, K Hou, S Kim - Journal of Financial Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We document that localized policies aimed at mitigating climate risk can have unintended
consequences due to regulatory arbitrage by firms. Using a difference-in-differences …

[PDF][PDF] Agency, information and corporate investment

JC Stein - Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2003 - cfrn.com.cn
This essay surveys the body of research that asks how the efficiency of corporate investment
is influenced by problems of asymmetric information and agency. I organize the material …

Firm boundaries matter: Evidence from conglomerates and R&D activity

A Seru - Journal of financial economics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of the conglomerate form on the scale and novelty of
corporate Research and Development (R&D) activity. I exploit a quasi-experiment involving …

Internal capital markets in business groups: Evidence from the Asian financial crisis

H Almeida, CS Kim, HB Kim - The Journal of Finance, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines capital reallocation among firms in Korean business groups (chaebol)
in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the consequences of this capital …

Diversification and financialization of non-financial corporations: Evidence from China

Y Feng, S Yao, C Wang, J Liao, F Cheng - Emerging Markets Review, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines whether and how business diversification affects financialization in
non-financial corporations. Using data from the Chinese market, we find that business …

Segment profitability and the proprietary and agency costs of disclosure

PG Berger, RN Hann - The Accounting Review, 2007 - publications.aaahq.org
We exploit the change in US segment reporting rules (from SFAS No. 14 to SFAS No. 131) to
examine two motives for managers to conceal segment profits: proprietary costs and agency …

Impact of COVID-19 exposure on working capital management: The moderating effect of investment opportunities and government incentives

A Tarkom - Finance Research Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firms' working capital
management (WCM) covering 2,542 US-publicly traded firms for the period 2019Q1 …

The impact of SFAS No. 131 on information and monitoring

PG Berger, R Hann - Journal of accounting research, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the effect of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new
segment reporting standard on the information and monitoring environment. We compare …