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 …

Does supply chain finance (SCF) alleviate funding constraints of SMEs? Evidence from China

Z Lou, Q Xie, JH Shen, CC Lee - Research in International Business and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Financing constraints have always been a common problem for small-and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) around the world, but the emergence of supply chain finance (SCF) has …

… and the cross-section of expected returns

CR Harvey, Y Liu, H Zhu - The Review of Financial Studies, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Hundreds of papers and factors attempt to explain the cross-section of expected returns.
Given this extensive data mining, it does not make sense to use the usual criteria for …

Do measures of financial constraints measure financial constraints?

J Farre-Mensa, A Ljungqvist - The review of financial studies, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Financial constraints are fundamental to empirical research in finance and economics. We
propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture …

The Marginal Value of Cash: Corporate Savings, Investment, and Financing

P Bolton, H Chen, N Wang - Annual Review of Financial …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The fact that internal liquidity is a key source of corporate funding puts the marginal value of
cash at the center of a variety of firm decisions, including investment, payout, financing …

Geopolitical risk and stock liquidity

P Fiorillo, A Meles, LR Pellegrino, V Verdoliva - Finance Research Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we examine the relationship between geopolitical risk and stock liquidity.
Using an international sample of publicly listed firms, we find that higher geopolitical risk is …

A Unified Theory of Tobin's q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management

P Bolton, H Chen, N Wang - The journal of Finance, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a model of dynamic investment, financing, and risk management for financially
constrained firms. The model highlights the central importance of the endogenous marginal …

The value of financial flexibility

A Gamba, A Triantis - The journal of finance, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a model that endogenizes dynamic financing, investment, and cash
retention/payout policies in order to analyze the effect of financial flexibility on firm value. We …

Firm-level productivity, risk, and return

A İmrohoroğlu, Ş Tüzel - Management science, 2014 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper provides new evidence about the link between firm-level total factor productivity
(TFP) and stock returns. We estimate firm-level TFP and show that it is strongly related to …

Cash holdings, risk, and expected returns

B Palazzo - Journal of Financial Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper I develop and empirically test a model that highlights how the correlation
between cash flows and a source of aggregate risk affects a firm's optimal cash holding …