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Research handbook of finance and sustainability /

Sustainability is now an essential objective for all organizations, enabling them to resist adverse shocks and thrive in a disruptive world. This Research Handbook provides expert coverage and practical tips on a wide array of pertinent issues related to current finance and sustainability research....

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Other Authors: Boubaker, Sabri, Cumming, Douglas, Nguyen, Duc Khuong
Format: Printed Book
Published: UK: Edward Elgar, 2018
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Corporate social responsibility
  • 1. The horn that didn't toot: the surprisingly weak relationship from advertising to CSR / Shawn Pope
  • 2. CSR, market value, and profitability: international evidence / Stevan Bajic and B. Burcin Yurtoglu
  • 3. Is corporate social responsibility an agency problem? / Hao Liang and Luc Renneboog
  • 4. Disentangling financial and ethical effects of corporate social responsibility on firm value / Sylvain Marsat, Guillaume Pijourlet and Benjamin Williams
  • 5. How useful are csr reports for investors : the problems of comparing environmental and social disclosures / James Hazelton and Stephanie Perkiss
  • 6. Corporate social responsibility and firm innovation / Dongyoung Lee
  • 7. A survey of corporate social responsibility and corporate governance / Zhichuan (Frank) Li
  • 8. The birth of environmental finance / Huy Nguyen Anh Pham and Vikash Ramiah
  • ^9. Can entrepreneurship be sustainable without being sustainability-driven : some historical perspective / Erwan Queinnec and Pierre Desrochers
  • 10. Sustainability and the evolution of the shareholder wealth maximization paradigm / Frank M. Werner and James A.F. Stoner
  • 11. Issue spread determinants in the green bond market: the role of second party reviewers and of the green bond principles / Stefano Gatti and Andrea Florio
  • 12. Structured microfinance in China / Hans Bystr om
  • 13. Microfinance and joint-liability lending / John Creedy and Hien Hoang
  • 14. Microfinance as an alternative to the imperfections of the financial system / Isabel Sainz-Fernandez, Bego na Torre-Olmo and Carlos L opez-Guti errez
  • 15. Comparing founders' specific human capital in traditional versus philanthropic venture capital firms / Jennifer Walske, Mariarosa Scarlata and Andrew Zacharakis
  • ^16. Examination of the relationship between venture capital and economic growth in emerging markets / Guldem Gokcek
  • Part II Governance and sustainable finance
  • 17. What explains voluntary corporate carbon disclosures in emerging markets? / Walid Ben-Amar, Philip McIlkenny and Karim Mhedhbi
  • 18. Understanding ESG ratings and ESG indexes / Michael Pagano, Graham Sinclair and Tina Yang
  • 19. Environmental regulation, financial regulation and sustainability / Imad Moosa and Vikash Ramiah
  • 20. Impact investing in social enterprises / Brian Bolton and Carolyn Niehaus
  • 21. The low-carbon transition and financial system stability / Carolin Schellhorn
  • 22. Environment, economics and ethics: towards an integrated model of 'strong' corporate sustainability / David Coldwell
  • 23. Climate risk and the practice of corporate valuation / Roberto Bianchini and Gianfranco Gianfrate
  • ^24. Value relevance of environmental, social, and governance disclosure / Zuraida Zuraida, Muhammad Nurul Houqe and Tony van Zijl
  • 25. The emergence of business sustainability: educational, practical and research implications / Anthony Ng and Zabihollah Rezaee
  • Part III Fraud, governance and agency problems
  • 26. Corporate governance and fraud: causes and consequences / Yan Alperovych, Riccardo Calcagno and Philipp Geiler
  • 27. Sustainability disclosure and earnings management / Eswaran Velayutham
  • 28. The effect of publication, format, and content of integrated reports on analysts' earnings forecasts / Suhee Kim, Karen Maas and Paolo Perego
  • 29. Crowdfunding as a two-sided platform: development of a crowdfunding participation model / Sunghan Ryu
  • 30. Crowdsourcing, co-creation and crowdfunding in the video-game industry / Dina AL-Ghamdi, Tahir M Nisar, Guru Prabhakar and Lubica Strakova
  • ^31. How to foster responsible corporate governance : voluntary versus legislative approaches / Antoine Reb erioux and Gwenael Roudaut
  • Index.