Greenwashing, carbon emission, and ESG

S Treepongkaruna, HH Au Yong… - … Strategy and the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent decades have seen an increasingly awareness of climate changes, putting a
pressure on companies to do more to deal with carbon emission. One of the popular …

Climate risk analysis: Definitions, measurements, strategies, and sectoral impacts

S Huang, S Vigne, D Yao, X Xu - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The paper reviews and integrates the definitions, measurement techniques of climate risk,
and its economic, social, and financial impacts. It systematizes the various dimensions of …

[HTML][HTML] ESG positioning in private infrastructure fundraising

S Duncombe, M Park, M Tarsalewska… - International Review of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine if environmental, social and governance (ESG) positioning by private equity
infrastructure funds affects fundraising success. We use novel hand-collected data from a …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging the gap in ESG measurement: Using NLP to quantify environmental, social, and governance communication

T Schimanski, A Reding, N Reding, J Bingler… - Finance Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria take a central role in fostering
sustainable development in economies. This paper introduces a class of novel Natural …

Corporate opposition to climate change disclosure regulation in the United States

A Lashitew, Y Mu - Climate Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Extensive research shows that corporations tacitly resist climate change-related regulations
even as they publicly espouse pro-climate strategies. In this study, we examine corporate …

Stress-testing long-context language models with lifelong icl and task haystack

X Xu, Q Ye, X Ren - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16695, 2024 - arxiv.org
We introduce Lifelong ICL, a problem setting that challenges long-context language models
(LMs) to learn from a sequence of language tasks through in-context learning (ICL). We …

Finance-specific large language models: Advancing sentiment analysis and return prediction with LLaMA 2

IC Chiu, MW Hung - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we develop an AI-driven summarization process for lengthy financial texts to
improve our self-trained, finance-specific LLaMA-2 model. This approach allows for precise …

Environmental protection tax reform and corporate Climate Risk Disclosure

X Cui, Q Ding, L Yang, C Yu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
The reform of the environmental protection tax (EPT), a crucial policy instrument for
combating climate change, significantly influences corporate climate risk. Hence, a thorough …

Firms' voluntary climate action disclosures and stock market reaction: A BERT-based analysis of earnings conference calls in China

M Shao, M Xue - Journal of Climate Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate information disclosure plays a pivotal role in fostering sustainable practices and
enhancing transparency in climate risk. However, it is unclear whether firms' voluntary …

War and policy: Investor expectations on the net-zero transition

M Deng, M Leippold, AF Wagner… - Swiss Finance Institute …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This study develops novel text-based proxies of corporate exposure to the low-carbon
transition and applies them to study investor responses to major events. US stocks with …