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Sustainability materiality matrices in doubt: may prioritizations of aspects overestimate environmental performance?
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-13)
This study builds on the research gap that arises from the consistency analysis of the GRI-materiality approach with other prioritization approaches. The main objective is to explore to what extent corporate environmental ...
Intraday realised volatility relationships between the S&P 500 spot and futures market
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
In this paper, we provide additional evidence on the intraday lead-lag relationship in the S&P 500 stock index futures market. In particular, we focus on the dynamic interactions of market volatility. In contrast to previous ...
Las aportaciones del apoyo social al capital social: propuesta de un modelo integrado y convergente
(Centro Investigación Información Economía Pública Social y Cooperativa, CIRIEC-España, 2013-04)
El capital social ha adquirido recientemente una importancia notable en todas las disciplinas de las ciencias sociales. Su carácter multidisciplinar, su intangibilidad y su naturaleza circular constituyen importantes ...
On the stationarity of futures hedge ratios
(Springer, 2020-09-30)
Stationarity of hedge ratios can be viewed as a frst step for portfolio hedging since
it represents that the sensitivity of spot and Future returns follow a process whose
main characteristics do not depend on time. ...
The power of ethical investment in the context of political uncertainty
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-31)
In this paper we analyse a set of socially responsible investment
(SRI) indices against their conventional counterparts in the US context. Using a data set that spans the Obama and Trump administrations, we aim to identify ...
Opinion-shopping: firm versus partner-level evidence
(Routledge, 2021)
Employing Lennox’s (2000) methodology on a uniquely long time series of Spanish companies’ data, we find evidence of successful audit opinion-shopping through the firm switching decision. However, in contrast to Chen et ...
How cultural dimensions, legal systems, and industry affect environmental reporting? Empirical evidence from an international perspective
(John Wiley and Sons, 2020-07)
Past research has paid little attention to the impact of stakeholder engagement, cultural, legal, and industrial contexts on environmental disclosure. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore how these three institutional ...
Food Prices, Ethics and Forms of Speculation
(Springer, 2021-05-23)
This paper examines the role of speculative motives in the determination of commodity prices and specifically food related commodity prices. The motivation for this study is the considerable flow of funds into commodities, ...
Assessment for Learning: How Plagiarism could be used as an Efficient Learning Tool
(2015)
Instructors should consider the role of responsible feedback as one of the main priorities of their teaching and learning strategies. It is well known that feedback is the bridge between students and instructors, as students’ ...