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ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship?

Cilt: 23 Sayı: 49 30 Haziran 2024
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ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship?

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This paper explores the nexus between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and corporate default risk. Employing a panel dataset from 1,094 non-financial companies in 21 nations in Europe, corresponding to 9,522 firm-year observations, and using fixed effects estimations, we empirically demonstrate that corporations with higher ESG scores tend to have lower firm default risk. Among the three categories of the ESG score, both the social and the environmental categories participate in this significant association. Moreover, our study presents novel evidence that within ESGs’ ten subcategories, resource use, product responsibility, emissions, human rights, workforce, and CSR strategy significantly reduce firm default risk. Furthermore, country-level shareholder protection moderates the linkage between default risk and ESG performance, such that the negative impact of ESG on default risk is lower for corporations located in nations with higher shareholder protection. Hence, if the countries’ shareholder protection levels are high, stronger ESG would decrease firm default risk by a lesser amount than countries with lower shareholder protection levels. Our findings are robust to alternate variable measurements and alternate methodologies, capturing endogeneity issues.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Finans

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2024

Gönderilme Tarihi

24 Nisan 2024

Kabul Tarihi

13 Mayıs 2024

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2024 Cilt: 23 Sayı: 49

Kaynak Göster

APA
Bilyay-erdoğan, S. (2024). ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship? İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 23(49), 1544-1570. https://doi.org/10.46928/iticusbe.1472876
AMA
1.Bilyay-erdoğan S. ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship? İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2024;23(49):1544-1570. doi:10.46928/iticusbe.1472876
Chicago
Bilyay-erdoğan, Seda. 2024. “ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship?”. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 23 (49): 1544-70. https://doi.org/10.46928/iticusbe.1472876.
EndNote
Bilyay-erdoğan S (01 Haziran 2024) ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship? İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 23 49 1544–1570.
IEEE
[1]S. Bilyay-erdoğan, “ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship?”, İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 23, sy 49, ss. 1544–1570, Haz. 2024, doi: 10.46928/iticusbe.1472876.
ISNAD
Bilyay-erdoğan, Seda. “ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship?”. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 23/49 (01 Haziran 2024): 1544-1570. https://doi.org/10.46928/iticusbe.1472876.
JAMA
1.Bilyay-erdoğan S. ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship? İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2024;23:1544–1570.
MLA
Bilyay-erdoğan, Seda. “ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship?”. İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 23, sy 49, Haziran 2024, ss. 1544-70, doi:10.46928/iticusbe.1472876.
Vancouver
1.Seda Bilyay-erdoğan. ESG Performance and Corporate Default Risk: Do Countries’ Shareholder Protection Levels Affect This Relationship? İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 01 Haziran 2024;23(49):1544-70. doi:10.46928/iticusbe.1472876