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Effects of Public Firms’ Business Ties with the Government on Firm-Level CSR Exposure

By | February 7, 2023
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With growing attention on corporate social responsibility (CSR) or the more recent expression of environmental, social, and governance (ESG), many countries and regions have imposed strict mandatory rules on CSR disclosures to better serve investors and other stakeholders. At the same time, government incentive programs such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) were also effective… Read More »

Disclosure, Firm Growth, and the JOBS Act

By | July 28, 2021
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Financing investment in future growth is an important motivation for firms to go public. Newly public firms fund investments mainly through public equity, and facilitate growth by building new capacity through capital expenditure(capex) and innovation, as well as by acquiring the assets of other firms. There is a longstanding policy debate on whether lowering the disclosure burden on public firms through regulation can facilitate such… Read More »