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A review of Indonesia's JETP through the dynamics of its policy regime Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Muhamad Rosyid Jazuli, Kate Roll, Yacob Mulugetta
During its 2022 G20 presidency, Indonesia committed to reducing carbon emissions through the Indonesia Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). In addition to other policies, the Partnership is designed to drive the country's broader energy transition and net‐zero aspirations for decades to come. In addition to technical challenges, the Partnership is expected to face social and political resistance
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Sustainability risk in insurance companies: A machine learning analysis Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Freddy Alejandro Oquendo‐Torres, María Jesús Segovia‐Vargas
Sustainable development constitutes a global challenge today, and the sustainable development goals (Agenda 2030) will probably set the course for the coming decades. This paper discusses sustainability in insurance companies by combining two aspects: a social approach (the environmental impact) and a business approach (the prediction of claims due to climate change). Our objective is to analyse the
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Financial constraints and sustainability in bioeconomy firms Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Marta Miranda‐García, María‐Jesús Segovia‐Vargas
In the current scenario, sustainability has become vitally important. This paper focuses on bioeconomy as it links the economic systems and sustainable development, promoting innovative and environmentally friendly solutions. The bioeconomy firms need financial resources that play a critical role in their ordinary activities and in the activities that contribute to sustainability. The relationship
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Synergy‐as‐principle in global climate regulation Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Volker Roeben
Isolated policy interventions are unlikely to effectively address a highly complex and cross‐cutting issue such as climate change. Such issues require more integrated or holistic approaches. The concept of searching for synergy across multiple objectives could then achieve better outcomes than a default position of trade‐off and collision. This contribution construes a novel principle of synergy to
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The possibility of climate restoration law Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Petra Minnerop, Friederike E. L. Otto
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Earnings management reactions to key audit matters Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 María‐del‐Mar Camacho‐Miñano, Domenico Campa, Laura Parte
This paper aims to investigate the earnings management (EM) reactions of firms to the key audit matters (KAMs) disclosed in expanded audit reports. Although previous literature has extensively investigated the interconnection between EM and different risks, little research to date examines the association between KAMs and EM strategies, considering both real earnings management and accruals earnings
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Detecting zombie firms in a sample of Finnish small firms Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Erkki K. Laitinen
The objective of the study was to develop a method to detect zombie firms in a sample of mainly very small companies. The original sample consisted of 70,809 active and 134 bankrupt Finnish companies (or firms in insolvency proceedings) for 2018–2020. In the sample firms, the median number of employees was only 2. First, a logistic regression model to measure bankruptcy risk was estimated using three
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Towards the autonomous defence capabilities of the European Union: Upgrading cyber defence policy Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Eimys Ortiz Hernández
Cyber attacks against the EU and its Member States have increased in recent times, which demonstrates the rapid blurring of the boundaries between the civilian and military components of cyberspace. Indeed, these events clearly highlight the critical interdependence between physical and digital infrastructures. While Member States have different and divergent perceptions of the prevailing threats,
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Exploring best practices for user engagement in peace and conflict research Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Thomas Bobo, Giuditta Fontana, Nino Kemoklidze
Peace and conflict scholars often engage in academic‐policy exchanges to both improve the rigour and relevance of their academic research and translate their findings into tangible policy and practical outcomes for peace and conflict resolution efforts. In a first effort of this kind, this paper explores best practices for user engagement in conflict and peace studies at three stages of academic research:
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Minimalist economic management, deferred revenue regime and aid dependency: Explaining contradictory post‐war statebuilding aims Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Kambaiz Rafi
The paper analyses a contradiction in the liberal approach to post‐war statebuilding. The form of the state is seen to aim for the establishment of a centralised maximalist administration when the state's de jure economic policy makes its revenue dependant on market‐generated private sector taxes that are either inadequate or its institutions are part of the reconstruction process. This conflation
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Issue congruence in international organizations: A study of World Bank spending Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Mirko Heinzel, Bernhard Reinsberg, Giuseppe Zaccaria
International organizations (IOs) are often criticized for insulated decision‐making processes that do not react to the preferences of key stakeholders that are directly affected by them. However, empirical studies probing the degree to which IOs’ policies are aligned with the preferences of such key constituencies are scarce. This paper tackles the gap by studying the case of the World Bank. We argue
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The European Union's involvement in global migration management: Possibilities and limitations Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Agnieszka Nitszke
Climate migration will be one of the most important challenges in the coming decades, and although many international institutions are beginning to recognise this challenge, there is no coordinator for these efforts. The EU, because of the resources at its disposal and the fact that it is a world leader in the fight against climate change, can play this role. It can also be one of the elements of building
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Will the poverty‐related UN Sustainable Development Goals be met? New projections Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Arief Anshory Yusuf, Zuzy Anna, Ahmad Komarulzaman, Andy Sumner
In this paper, we discuss the literature and consider the historical relationship between growth and a set of poverty‐related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality and access to clean water. We then make projections for 2030. We find that it is very likely that global poverty‐related SDGs will not be
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Strengthening links between science and technology experts and frontline diplomats to address science diplomacy challenges Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Blake Su, Jean‐Christophe Mauduit, Douglas Momberg, Lee E. Voth‐Gaeddert
The boundaries of knowledge within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains are continuously advancing resulting in dynamic diplomatic applications. These shifting and expanding boundaries have direct implications in foreign policy. However, frontline diplomats have demanding day‐to‐day priorities that make it difficult to acquire, retain, and employ cutting edge STEM knowledge
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Reverse the road: From European Monetary Union to Euroization Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Alban Mathieu, Pierre Funalot
Euroization is considered as a solution for transition economies or as a step toward later integration into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This article seeks to challenge this conventional trajectory by arguing that a country already participating in the EMU could opt for euroization. Instead of adopting a binary analysis of pros and cons, a moderate perspective is employed, taking into account
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Navigating geopolitical and trade megatrends: Public export finance in a world of change Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Andreas Klasen, Simone Krummaker, Julia Beck, James Pennington
Ensuring exporters can access finance is critical for governments as they look to encourage trade and drive economic growth. However, firms face challenges in securing export finance and trade credit insurance as geopolitical and trade megatrends lead to increased political, market and credit risks. In a dynamic global landscape, the role of export credit agencies (ECAs) has never been more important
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How to constitute global citizens' forums: Key selection principles Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 John S. Dryzek, Simon J. Niemeyer
Once imagined as a theoretical possibility, global citizen deliberation is now beginning to appear in the practice of governance. How should global citizens' forums be constituted? A largely unexamined consensus on random selection as the ideal method to locate citizen participants has fractured as its limitations become more apparent. We undertake a systematic comparative examination of random selection
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Catching up with climate priorities: Understanding multilateral development banks' evolving approach to biodiversity Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Christoph Nedopil, Mathias Larsen, Aurelie Chane‐Yook, Divya Narain
A global consensus now recognises biodiversity as equal to climate change in its importance to sustainable development. While multilateral development banks (MDBs) have developed a strong emphasis on climate change, how do they approach biodiversity as a new priority? Current literature on MDBs' approach to climate change is prolific, but scholarship on biodiversity is scarce. Here, we compare MDBs'
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Editorial Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Flavia Lucenti, Thomas McWilliam, Maren Vieluf, Gregory Stiles
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Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards: Developments, trends and challenges Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Axel Marx, Charline Depoorter, Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba, Rupal Verma, Mercedes Araoz, Graeme Auld, Janne Bemelmans, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Eva Boonaert, Clara Brandi, Thomas Dietz, Eve Fouilleux, Janina Grabs, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, James Harrison, Robert Heilmayr, Ariel Hernandez, Bernard Hoekman, Siti Rubiah Lambert, Eric Lambin, Li Li, Miet Maertens, Paulo Mortara Batistic, Etsuyo Michida, Junji
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are transnational governance instruments that can be leveraged to pursue sustainable development in global value chains. They have proliferated since the 1990s in terms of their number and the share of global production they govern. This paper shares some key insights arising from the considerable body of literature that has analysed the role of these instruments
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Overcoming gridlock? The role of city networks in transnational cooperation on climate mitigation Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Sam Taveirne, Ben Derudder
Local governments engage in combating global warming by cooperating in transnational city networks. These networks are often hailed as an alternative to the alleged gridlock of interstate cooperation. Still, it remains unclear if and how the institutional characteristics of city networks can overcome this gridlock. Therefore, we analyze to what extent cooperation in city networks faces the same institutional
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The changing post‐Brexit UK‐EU relationship and rules‐based global governance Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Nicholas Sowels
In 2023, relations between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) began taking on a more reasoned approach. The Windsor Framework, agreed in February between the Sunak government and the EU, resolved most of the tensions about trade with Northern Ireland. 2023 also witnessed a more pragmatic approach to dealing with several issues harming (British) business and unnecessarily grating post‐Brexit
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Introduction: Development practice, power and public authority Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Tom Kirk, Rose Pinnington
Drawing upon research across multiple countries, the papers in this special issue explore how public authority dynamics affect development and humanitarian practices and processes. Some focus on places commonly labelled as in crisis or understood to be subject to multiple overlapping crises, where responses to epidemics, persistent conflict and migrations are in progress. Others examine how public
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Indonesia's Russia‐Ukraine war stance and the Global South: Between solidarity and transactionalism Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Leonard C. Sebastian, Adhi Priamarizki
How does Indonesia's positioning in relation to the Russia‐Ukraine war shape the country's view on global order? President Joko Widodo or Jokowi visited both Russia and Ukraine in June 2022 in the pretext of brokering peace between the two countries. Indonesia though refrained from taking sides in the Russo‐Ukraine war. During his visit, Jokowi stressed the necessity for the war to end. Equally important
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Humanitarian protection activities and the safety of strangers in the DRC, Syria and South Sudan Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Tom Kirk, Naomi Pendle, Anastasia Vasilyeva
Many contemporary humanitarian organisations derive their legitimacy from their claims to protect civilians. Yet, what these organisations do in its name includes a diverse and contested range of activities that are often far from what global publics and affected populations understand as constituting protection. As others have argued, this detracts from honest discussions about when and how humanitarians
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Argentina and the Ukraine War: Between pragmatism and values Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Bruno Binetti
This article examines Argentina's stance regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. During the administration of President Alberto Fernández (2019–2023), Argentina condemned the invasion at the United Nations but maintained a relatively low diplomatic profile and criticised Western sanctions against Russia. However, since President Javier Milei took office in late 2023, Argentina has shifted its foreign
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Urgent pandemic messaging of WHO, World Bank, and G20 is inconsistent with their evidence base Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 David Bell, Garrett Wallace Brown, Jean von Agris, Blagovesta Tacheva
When international agencies make claims of an “existential threat” to humanity and advocate for urgent action from countries, it should be a safe assumption that they are consistent with their own data. However, a review of the data and evidentiary citations underlying the claims of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and the Group of Twenty (G20) reveals a troubling picture in which
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Community self‐protection, public authority and the safety of strangers in Bor and Ler, South Sudan Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Tom Kirk, Naomi Pendle, Abraham Diing Akoi
Protection is not simply something done or delivered to people by states, humanitarian organisations and armed peacekeepers. Instead, a growing literature has begun to examine the self‐protection strategies of people and communities in protracted violent crises. Its authors suggest that nuanced understandings of how people retain a measure of agency in the face of violence is an important first step
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The geopolitics of supply chains: EU efforts to ensure security of supply Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Andrew Glencross
Recently, the EU launched a number of initiatives to prevent the weaponising of supply chains and build resilience against interruptions. This article explores attempts to ensure security of supply in three sectors: semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and critical raw materials. The analysis contrasts the measures taken in each sector in order to highlight commonalities and explain differences in approach
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The diverse cities of global urban climate governance Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Marielle Papin, Jacob Fortier
Global politics has shown increasing interest in cities, particularly in the field of climate policy and governance. Yet, we still have little understanding of which cities engage the most in global urban climate governance. Answering this question is a first step towards understanding who decides for whom in a system that has decisive influence on wider global policy processes. In this article, we
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An expanded investigation of alliance security free riding Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Wukki Kim, Todd Sandler, Hirofumi Shimizu
This paper provides an expanded analysis of NATO security burden sharing by including a variety of conglomerate security terms that involve subsets of military expenditure (ME), UN and non‐UN peacekeeping contributions, global health spending, UN environmental support, and official development assistance. In so doing, we identify components of security spending that promote or inhibit free riding on
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Assessing public health implications of free trade agreements: The comprehensive and progressive Trans‐Pacific Partnership Agreement Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Liz Green, Kath Ashton, Leah Silva, Courtney McNamara, Michael Fletcher, Louisa Petchey, Timo Clemens, Margaret Douglas
In 2016, the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union, which was surrounded by political and social uncertainty. The United Kingdom now negotiates its own trade agreements, and in March 2023, it agreed to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans‐Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP). A health impact assessment (HIA) was undertaken in 2022–23 to predict the potential impact of the CPTPP on
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Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Anuradha Joshi, Colin Anderson, Katrina Barnes, Egidio Chaimite, Miguel Loureiro, Alex Shankland
Drawing upon ‘governance diaries,’ a method which used repeated interviews with a set of households and intermediaries in three countries—Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan—to understand how marginalised groups meet their daily governance needs, we argue that local governance networks constitute a form of public authority. The networks we examine encompass a range of local actors (state and non‐state)
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‘No safe haven’: Why the GATT ‘regional exception’ does not apply to technical barriers to trade Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Silvia Nuzzo
During the last two decades, Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) have increased in quantity and broadened in scope. Far from merely reducing tariffs, they now set out a detailed discipline also on behind‐the‐border measures. Due to their trade‐restrictive potential, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) are now systematically regulated in PTAs. Since PTAs discriminate by definition, it is pivotal to
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Reserving the right to say no? Equilibria around hard trade‐sustainability commitments in power‐asymmetric contexts Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar, Oto Murer Küll Montagner
When will stringent sustainability commitments (not) be a stumbling block in the negotiation of trade agreements? Although the existing literature has explored the determinants of the design of sustainability provisions in trade agreements, few works have explored when countries will accept/reject those provisions once their content cannot be changed. Based on insights from game theory, we flesh out
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Negotiating faith in exile: Learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Elizabeth Storer
Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. Partnerships are increasingly promoted through international declarations and bespoke toolkits. Such approaches are abstracted from the historical and contemporary contexts through which faith is negotiated, and through which faith actors have become legitimate. This paper explores how faith has
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Russia–Ukraine war and India's quest for leading power status Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Raj Verma
India's neutrality and failure to publicly criticise Russia is driven by the Modi government's quest to be a great/leading power. It believes that Moscow can aid New Delhi in achieving this goal by enhancing the security pillar of its foreign policy strategy. However, publicly criticising Russia will undermine India's security pillar and will prevent India from becoming a leading power. Thus, India's
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Private sector participation in infrastructure in emerging market and developing economies: Evolution, constraints, and policies Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Joseph Mawejje
The private sector can play important roles in closing the infrastructure investment gaps in emerging market and developing economies. However, private participation in emerging market and developing economies' infrastructure has declined over the past decade, reflecting persistent structural challenges and risks in the business environment. The decline was broad‐based and gained momentum following
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Digital nomadism and the challenge to social citizenship Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Adam K. Webb
As a subset of remote work, digital nomadism crosses jurisdictions and generates fears that it unfairly escapes regulation and taxation. Alongside other circuits of an emerging world society, it fails to fit neatly into the longstanding template of relatively self‐contained nation‐states. Most efforts to address this new phenomenon merely aim to tweak tax treaties and other rules, so as better to slot
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The benefits of neutrality: Saudi foreign policy in the wake of the Ukraine war Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Jens Heibach
This article assesses Saudi Arabia's ambivalent response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. On the one hand, the Kingdom has publicly condemned Russia's military aggression as contravening international law. Yet, on the other, it has also failed to take serious measures against Moscow, notably by refusing to join in Western attempts to prevent Russia from earning hydrocarbon revenues
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The war in Ukraine, the Global South and the evolving global order Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Malte Brosig, Raj Verma
This special section explores how nine key countries from the Global South have responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As the Western attempt to build a global anti‐Russia coalition has largely failed, the focus on countries from the Global South becomes more important but remains under‐researched in the discipline. This introductory article offers the conceptual framework for the following empirical
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Digital innovation and de‐branching in the banking industry: Customer perception and satisfaction Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Santiago Carbó‐Valverde, Pedro J. Cuadros‐Solas, Francisco Rodríguez‐Fernández, José Juan Sánchez‐Béjar
In the ever‐changing landscape of the banking industry, digital transformation has become a major challenge. Banks are transitioning towards digitalisation by utilising information and digital technologies while reducing their branch networks. This paper investigates the relationship between technological innovation and banking customers' perception and satisfaction. By analysing a comprehensive consumer
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Risk analysis of Spanish companies Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Juan Antonio Rodríguez‐Sanz, Eleuterio Vallelado, Miguel Fernández‐Martín
This paper aims to investigate the determinants of different types of market risk faced by Spanish firms from 2012 to 2019. Using Fama and French's (Journal of Financial Economics, 1993, 33, 3) three‐factor model, we estimate total risk, diversifiable risk, and systematic or non‐diversifiable risk in the three dimensions proposed by these authors: market risk, size risk, and valuation risk. Risk determinants
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Mapping research on corporate misconduct in banking: Lessons from literature on preventive and punitive actions Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Rita Rodríguez‐Arrojo, Manuel Luna, Camilo J. Vázquez‐Ordás, Myriam García‐Olalla
Advanced societies are increasingly concerned about corporate misconduct. Citizens are more willing to penalize it, and regulators are punishing companies more significantly than ever before. In particular, while reputation is a key asset for any business, corporate conduct has proven to be especially relevant in the banking industry. The present paper explores the main research efforts carried out
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Climate‐related credit risk: Rethinking the credit risk framework Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Helena Redondo, Elisa Aracil
Climate change and the challenges associated with the transition to a zero‐carbon economy pose significant financial risks. Climate‐related risks (CRR) indirectly impact banks through their loan portfolios. To examine the integration of CRR into banks' credit risk assessment and monitoring, this article reviews academic and institutional literature using quantitative bibliometric techniques and content
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Introduction to the special issue: “Current challenges of corporate governance: Reputation, risk and sustainability” Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Myriam García‐Olalla, Camilo José Vázquez‐Ordás
In the modern business landscape, the challenges of corporate governance have become increasingly important. In particular, those related to reputation, risk, and sustainability are today crucial to the well‐being of both individual organizations and the global economy and society at large. For these reasons, corporate governance today plays a more important role than ever before in shaping the strategies
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Work environment and health of bank employees working from home: Lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Carla Azpíroz‐Dorronsoro, Beatriz Fernández‐Muñiz, José Manuel Montes‐Peón, Camilo José Vázquez‐Ordás
Teleworking in the banking sector has increased considerably as a result of the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic. This work examines the role that home work environment and organisational support for teleworking played in the health of bank employees who were forced to work from their homes during the health emergency. For this, the authors propose and test a structural equation model and a moderated
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How the method for delivering loans impacts on the economic efficiency of microfinance institutions Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 José L. Fernández Sánchez, María D. Odriozola, Elisa Baraibar‐Diez
The aim of this research has been to analyse how the method employed for lending can affect the cost efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) since innovations for lending have been introduced in the sector in the last years and there are not empirical studies to analyse the actual impact of it. The improvement of MFIs' cost efficiency is very important for these institutions to achieve their
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Epistemic competition in global governance: The case of pharmaceutical patents Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Cynthia Couette
Expert consensus helps policymakers solve complex problems by identifying and legitimizing policy solutions. Yet, persistent hesitation remains among policymakers regarding the technically adequate policy solution despite the existence and mobilization of epistemic communities. This paper contends that more attention should be given to studying the epistemic competition that may arise when multiple
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Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Alexandra Buylova, Mathias Fridahl, Gunilla Reischl
How can the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) be made more effective? This paper argues that in order to make the UNFCCC fit for purpose, there is a need to identify the specific institutional reforms that can create ripple effects to accelerate climate action across governance levels and relevant organisations. Longstanding calls to reform the UNFCCC have targeted inefficient procedures
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Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the sustainable development goals Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Magdalena Bexell
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with their 169 targets and 231 indicators epitomise the trend of global governance by numbers. This article suggests the notion of a global “indicator reporting trajectory” that is shaped by three main elements: the politics of indicators, a reporting infrastructure and indicator advocacy. I propose that indicator reporting trajectories may result either in
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Unique data, different values: Explaining variation in the use of biometrics by international humanitarian organizations Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Çağlar Açıkyıldız
Humanitarian organizations are increasingly using biometric technology. Although the existing literature comprehensively covers this issue, it overlooks the considerable divergence in approaches and policies. In fact, there are significant differences in how biometric data are collected, stored, processed, shared, and protected. Drawing on an analysis of relevant news items, documents, and 17 semi-structured
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Fit for purpose? Just Energy Transition Partnerships and accountability in international climate governance Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Joseph Earsom
This contribution examines whether just energy transition partnerships (JETPs), a new type of financial agreement between G7/G7-allies and low-to-middle income states, can serve as accountability mechanisms for the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It identifies important structural elements from the existing literature on climate governance for holding actors to account
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Accountability in densely institutionalized governance spaces Global Policy (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Stephanie C. Hofmann
The concept of organizational accountability is central to good governance both domestically and internationally. However, assessing accountability in densely institutionalized global governance spaces requires new conceptual and analytical tools. Rather than concentrating on the accountability of states, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and transnational