Environmental and Social Disclosures and Firm Risk

Corporate governance and environmental performance and disclosures

Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts

Using Transparency International’s ratings of firm disclosures on anticorruption efforts, we find that disclosures are related to firms’ country and industry exposures to corruption, and to enforcement and monitoring variables. We then examine whether firms’ residual anticorruption disclosures are related to subsequent allegations of corruption and subsequent performance. Firms with abnormally ...

the study of practical and theoretical foundation of credit risk and its coverage

پس از بررسی هر کدام از فاکتورهای نوع صنعت, نوع ضمانت نامه, نرخ بهره , نرخ تورم, ریسک اعتباری کشورها, کارمزد, ریکاوری, gdp, پوشش و وثیقه بر ریسک اعتباری صندوق ضمانت صادرات ایران مشخص گردید که همه فاکتورها به استثنای ریسک اعتباری کشورها و کارمزد بقیه فاکتورها رابطه معناداری با ریسک اعتباری دارند در ضمن نرخ بهره , نرخ تورم, ریکاوری, و نوع صنعت و ریسک کشورها اثر عکس روی ریسک اعتباری داردو پوشش, وثی...

Firm Specific Risk and Return: Quantile Regression Application

The present study aims at investigating the relationship between firm specific risk and stock return using cross-sectional quantile regression. In order to study the power of firm specific risk in explaining cross-sectional return, a combination of Fama-Macbeth (1973) model and quantile regression is used. To this aim, a sample of 270 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during 1999-2010 was i...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk: Theory and Empirical Evidence∗

This paper presents an industry equilibrium model where firms can choose to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. We model CSR activities as an investment in customer loyalty and show that CSR decreases systematic risk. This e§ect is stronger for firms producing di§erentiated goods and when consumers’ expenditure share on CSR goods is small. We find supporting evidence for...