CORPORATE SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY
; INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
; CLIMATE-CHANGE
; IMPLIED COST
; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
; MANAGING LEGITIMACY
; FIRM VALUE
; MEDIA
; RISK
; SUSTAINABILITY
WOS学科分类:
Business
; Environmental Studies
; Management
WOS研究方向:
Business & Economics
; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
英文摘要:
This study examines whether firms can influence their cost of equity (COE) by broadly disseminating their carbon information over Twitter. We study firms' dissemination decisions of carbon information by developing a comprehensive measure of carbon information that a firm makes on Twitter, referred to as iCarbon. Using a sample of 1,737 firm-year observations for 584 nonfinancial firms with a Twitter account and listed on the U.S. NASDAQ stock exchange over the period 2009-2015, we find that iCarbon is significantly and negatively associated with COE. Our results are consistent after determining the effect of Bloomberg's environmental and environmental, social, and governance disclosure. The findings also hold when using alternative measures of COE and iCarbon.
1.Newcastle Univ, Sch Business, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England 2.King Faisal Univ, Al Hasa, Saudi Arabia
Recommended Citation:
Albarrak, Mohammed S.,Elnahass, Marwa,Salama, Aly. The effect of carbon dissemination on cost of equity[J]. BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT,2019-01-01,28(6):1179-1198