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"Do Foreign Cash Holdings Generate Uncertainty for Analysts?"

In forecasting future earnings, analysts face uncertainty in understanding the firm’s economic situation, especially if cash is held by foreign subsidiaries – given that it may be subject to investment inefficiencies. In recent work published in the European Accounting Review, Michele Fabrizi

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"At what cost? Environmental regulation and corporate cash holdings"

This paper, published in Finance Research Letters, explores the relation between environmental protection laws and corporate cash holdings. Analyzing data from firms in 31 countries, the authors, Anna Alexander (dSEA Unipd), Antonio De Vito (University of Bologna) and Luca Menicacci (Free University

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"Plotting the Words of Econophysics"

In this paper, published in Entropy, Gianfranco Tusset from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova, applies text mining to 510 articles on econophysics to reconstruct the lexical evolution of the discipline from 1999 to 2020. The traditional areas of research,

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"Carbon emission and firms’ value: Evidence from Europe"

Authors:Salvatore Perdichizzi (dSEA Unipd)Bruno Buchetti (dSEA Unipd)Antonella Francesca Cicchiello (Catholic University of Sacred Heart)Lorenzo Dal Maso (University of Bologna) Growing climate change concerns have intensified focus on corporate CO2 emissions. This study, published in Energy

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"Data brokers co-opetition"

In today’s highly digitized economy, if data are considered the fuel of the digital economy, ‘data brokers’ (DBs) are its catalyst. These often unknown actors are companies whose primary business is collecting personal information about consumers from a variety of sources and aggregating, analysing,

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