Using data from 41 different countries including the United States, we provide novel empiricalevidence that firms increase their cash holdings as a response to climate risk. This effect is drivenby financially constrained firms and becomes significantly stronger after the release of the...

We document evidence that the CEOs who lead the firms that face higher climate change risk (CCR) receive higher equity-based compensation. Our finding is consistent with the compensating-wedge-differential theory and survives numerous robustness and endogeneity tests. The result is more...

The utility of corporate social responsibility (CSR), particularly during crisis times, has been a puzzle in the literature while climate change issues increasingly threaten corporate sustainability. Using a large sample of US firm-year observations from 2002 to 2018, we explore whether CSR...

Using daily data from 39 different economies, we provide evidence that Russian invasion of Ukraine negatively impacted the global financial markets. Our study has three major takeaways. First, the event increases overall market volatilities, and the escalated daily geopolitical risk (GPRD) helps...

Using a sample of 27 countries between 1990 and 2014, we find that banks charge higher interest rates and adjust other contractual features of their loans when lending to firms facing more stringent environmental regulations. Our evidence suggests that lenders' concerns about the increase in...

Utilizing a news-based index of geopolitical risk (GPR) and using over 62 years of data, we find that GPR has a long-lasting negative impact on leverage. This result is robust to different model specifications, different proxies for leverage, several robustness tests, and survive after...