Corporate Environmental Responsibility and the Cost of Capital: International Evidence

We examine how corporate environmental responsibility (CER) affects the cost of equity capital for manufacturing firms in 30 countries. Using several approaches to estimate firms’ ex ante equity financing costs, we find in regressions that control for firm-level characteristics as well as industry,...

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Authors: El Ghoul, Sadok (Author) ; Guedhami, Omrane (Author) ; Kim, Hakkon (Author) ; Park, Kwangwoo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2018
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 149, Issue: 2, Pages: 335-361
Further subjects:B M14
B Firm risk
B Environmental risk management
B G32
B Corporate environmental responsibility
B Environmental liability risk
B Cost of equity capital
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