赤道原则与我国银行业环保风险防范

赤道原则（Equator Principles）是金融机构的企业社会责任基准，它要求金融机构对于项目融资中的环境和社会问题尽到审慎性审核调查义务。本文从定义赤道原则和商业银行的环保风险入手，分析商业银行环保风险产生的原因，提出商业银行进行环保风险防范的必要性：银行间激烈的竞争、政府对环境法律与法规的不断强化、公众对绿色产品的需求、非政府组织对环保的关注和来自国际规则的压力等，最后阐述我国商业银行环保风险防范的现状并提出建议。     

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近年来,华夏银行遵照“赤道原则”和《银行业金融机构企业社会责任指引》的要求,积极践行对股东、员工、客户、社会的责任,基本实现了企业发展、员工发展和社会发展的和谐统一。     

加快金融企业社会责任转型的对策建议

十七届五中全会和中央经济工作会议明确了低碳经济发展战略.我国金融业正围绕社会责任和赤道原则为主线,从组织架构、客户结构和经营模式等方面转型布局.本文从责任管理体系建设、赤道原则的指导原则出发,结合我国金融业公司治理机制现状,论述了我国金融机构在治理机制和业务发展上,必须贯彻低碳发展思路,企业市场责任必须与环境、社会责任...     

加强“绿色信贷”建设 应对“赤道原则”挑战

国际项目融资中的“赤道原则”（the Equator Principles,简称EP）,是世界主要金融机构为了回应环境保护组织和社会团体的批评,根据国际金融公司（IFC）的政策和指南制定的一套非官方的自愿性规定,其目的在于管理和改善与国际项目融资有关的社会和环境问题,以回应履行企业社会责任对金融机构的内外部压力。     

赤道银行盈利问题研究——绿色金融背景下企业社会责任和财务绩效关联的再探讨

本文以赤道原则为例,对企业社会责任和财务绩效之间的关系进行了实证研究。运用最早的10家赤道银行2005-2012年的面板数据构建回归模型,探究金融机构采纳赤道原则与盈利间是否相关,如何相关。结果表明,在充分考虑滞后的前提下,金融机构在低风险C类项目、基础设施和可再生能源、新兴市场国家三类融资数目均与盈利正相关。文章最后提出结合国情引入赤道原则并保证融资方针连续性的建议。     

从赤道原则看欠发达地区银行业金融机构履行社会责任

对环境和社会负责,是项目融资过程中必须研究分析的基础工作,国际金融公司和世界银行制定的赤道原则为项目融资提供了新的行业标准,本文通过对赤道原则的思考和分析,为目前银行业金融机构履行社会责任提供一些思路和参考。     

基于“赤道原则”下商业银行履行社会责任有效性的实现

＂赤道原则＂倡导金融机构对于项目融资中的环境问题应尽到审慎性核查义务,只有在融资申请方面能够证明项目执行对社会和环境负责的前提下,才能提供融资。该原则已成为各国银行可持续金融运行的行动指南。基于＂赤道原则＂下我国商业银行履行社会责任有着积极的现实意义。     

遵循赤道原则 践行绿色金融

赤道原则形成于2002年,因其宗旨是帮助借款人和金融机构解决项目融资中可能遇到的社会和环境问题而得到全球主要金融机构的推崇和遵循。赤道原则是自愿性原则,通过一整套完整的风险管理理念和方法帮助商业银行有效推行绿色金融。在中国,环境和社会问题已受到广泛关注,金融机构如何通过绿色金融保护环境一直是一个前沿课题。     

IFC支持银行实现绿色信贷

“绿色”理念已逐渐被国人所认同，“绿色”行动也在逐渐被诸多机构和企业所推进。我们看到，自2003年6月IFC等金融机构推出“赤道原则”以来，全球已经有63家金融机构宣布采纳“赤道原则”，而中国的兴业银行是全球第63家，也是中国第一家宣布采纳“赤道原则”的金融机构。采纳“赤道原则”的金融机构（EPFIs）形成了一个联盟，那就是拒绝为违反赤道原则相关的社会、环境政策和程序的项目贷款。而赤道原则采用IFC的社会和环境标准，也充分体现了IFC的领导能力。为此，《国际融资》杂志记者采访了IFC执行副总裁兼首席执行官拉尔斯·特内尔（Lars Thunell）     

商业银行践行社会责任的国际借鉴

可持续发展要求商业银行发挥和承担更多的社会责任,我国商业银行的企业社会责任实践刚刚起步,本文借鉴国际经验,阐述了赤道原则的产生和发展、我国商业银行接受赤道原则的必要性,并对我国商业银行社会责任的实施提出了具体的建议和对策.     

Corporate social responsibility reporting in financial institutions: Evidence from Euronext

The legitimacy, the identity and the social impact of financial institutions go beyond the generation of revenues for providers of capital, through financial intermediation. Financial institutions bear significant corporate social responsibility (CSR). We produce measures of CSR disclosure and explore the determinants of CSR disclosure practices in a cross section of financial institutions. Working with financial companies whose stocks are listed in the Euronext stock exchange, we find that the extent of disclosure of CSR practices is greater in large companies and also in companies of greater financial leverage. Therefore, increased corporate visibility and financial risk increase stakeholder demand for transparency on the social impact of financial institutions and their CSR practices.     

企业社会责任、融资约束与企业金融化

企业承担社会责任能够通过与利益相关者进行资源交换获得战略资源,但是战略资源对企业绩效的影响取决于企业的投资方向。在实体企业金融化愈演愈烈的经济环境下,本文利用2010—2017年中国A股非金融上市公司数据重点探讨了企业社会责任对企业金融化的影响及其作用机制。研究结果表明:(1)企业社会责任提高了企业的金融资产配置水平,存在“金融化效应”;(2)融资约束在企业社会责任对企业金融化的影响中具有部分中介作用,企业社会责任通过缓解融资约束加剧了企业金融化;(3)企业社会责任的“金融化效应”仅在外部监管力度较弱的非国有企业、内部治理水平较低的低股权集中度企业中存在,行政外部监督和企业内部监督能够在“融资约束—企业金融化”过程中对管理层的机会主义行为发挥治理作用;(4)识别机制检验证实了中国企业金融化主要出于利润最大化的“投资替代”动机。以上结论为政策制定者规范企业社会责任报告披露方式、引导金融回归实体经济具有借鉴意义。     

Corporate social responsibility and financial fraud: evidence from China

This paper investigates the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate financial fraud in China. We find that CSR scores are negatively associated with fraudulent financial activities, suggesting that CSR firms are less likely to engage in financial fraud. The results also indicate that the negative relation is more significant for CSR performance than CSR disclosure. Additionally, we demonstrate that the negative effect of CSR is more pronounced for firms with voluntary CSR practices, continuous CSR engagements, financial pressure and internal control weaknesses. Overall, we find that CSR is an ethical behaviour that reduces financial misconduct.     

Impact of corporate governance and related controversies on the market value of banks

Effective corporate governance of financial institutions, particularly in the banking sector, is vital for the stability of the financial system and the prevention of financial crises. Thus, this study examines the impact of corporate governance and related controversies on the market value of banks. For this purpose, we utilized Refinitiv’s corporate governance scores, including management, shareholder value, and corporate social responsibility (CSR), as well as its corporate governance controversies scores to analyze their impact on the market value of 242 banks in 43 countries. Using Refinitiv’s ESG database from 2017 to 2021, we conducted a path analysis and found a positive and statistically significant relationship between the CSR strategy scores and the market value of banks as well as between the management scores and the market value of banks. Moreover, there is a statistically significant relationship between the corporate governance controversies scores and the market value of banks.     

企业社会责任效率与生产前沿面研究

从战略、投资、资源的角度对企业社会责任活动与企业绩效之间的关系进行了阐述,认为战略性的企业社会责任能够使企业获得最优绩效.并以制造业和信息传输、软件和信息技术服务业2010～2014年财务数据为基础,根据DEA理论,采用C2R模型对两个行业进行企业社会责任效率与企业社会责任生产前沿面分析.实证结果表明:两个行业履行企业社会责任平均效率不高,主要是由于技术效率较低导致;不同的行业存在不同的企业社会责任生产前沿面.     

Corporate social responsibility: An umbrella or a puddle on a rainy day? Evidence surrounding corporate financial misconduct

We examine the way a fraudulent firm's pre‐ and post‐misconduct corporate social responsibility engagement is associated with its stock performance to investigate the reputational role of corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the short term, firms with good CSR performance suffer smaller market penalties upon the revelation of financial wrongdoing, supporting the buffer effect, as opposed to the backfire effect, of a good social image. We also find that the misbehaving firms’ post‐misconduct CSR efforts are negatively associated with delisting probabilities, and positively with stock returns. These findings support the argument that increasing post‐crisis CSR engagement can be an effective remedy for a damaged reputation.     

Corporate Social Responsibility,Institutional Environments,and Tax Avoidance: Evidence from a Subnational Comparison in China

We examine the association between mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and economic contribution (tax payments) in China, where we expect this association to be affected by a region's institutional attributes. Exploiting a dataset that shows cross-regional variations in institutions, we find that in regions with lower institutional quality, firms claiming to be socially responsible actually avoid taxes, whereas CSR disclosure in other regions is more aligned with the social responsibility aspect of tax compliance. Our study contributes to the literature by demonstrating that in the absence of proper institutions, CSR disclosure is likely to remain a form of window dressing.     

Multi-dimensional corporate social responsibilities and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China

Worldwide, there has been an ongoing debate about whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) can lead to better financial market performance, or whether corporations can do well by doing good. Working with a sample of all listed companies in China from 2010 to 2017, this study examines the impacts of three dimensions of CSR on stock price crash risk. We find that CSR, especially firms' responsibility to the environment and stakeholders, significantly reduces stock price crash risk, while social contributions such as charitable donations have no significant effect on stock crash risk. Attracting long-term institutional investors is the primary mechanism through which CSR can curb crash risk. Mitigating earnings management is also a channel through which overall CSR and stakeholder responsibility contribute to a lower stock crash risk. Finally, we find that stakeholder responsibility and environmental responsibility can help improve stock market performance.     

Tradeoff between corporate investment and CSR: The moderating effect of financial slack,workforce slack,and board gender diversity

This paper investigates the existence of a tradeoff between corporate investment (i.e., tangible and intangible) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the presence of the moderating effects of financial slack, human resources slack, and board gender diversity. Based on an international sample of 44,129 firm-year observations between 2005 and 2019, we find that corporate investment leads to significantly lower CSR engagement in all three pillars (i.e., environmental, social, and governance). Furthermore, while financial slack positively moderates between corporate investment and CSR, human resources slack and board gender diversity negatively moderate between corporate investment and CSR. This outcome is robust in terms of endogeneity concerns, alternative sampling, alternative investment proxies, CSR regulations, and timing impacts. Hence, we find the dominance of the shareholders' perspective rather than the stakeholders' perspective. The results outline the tradeoff between corporate investment and CSR and the role of contingencies in this tradeoff relationship.     

Corporate social responsibility orientation and textual features of financial disclosures

This paper examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) orientation and textual attributes of financial disclosures. Using a large U.S. sample from 1999 to 2017, we find that firms with high CSR orientation provide more readable disclosures and use a less ambiguous tone in their annual reports. These findings are consistent with the notion that managers in CSR-conscious firms adhere to high ethical standards and commit to improving the transparency of their firms' financial disclosures. Our results are robust to alternative measures of readability and CSR performance, potential endogeneity, and sampling methods. Moreover, in a cross-sectional analysis, we show that the impact of CSR on corporate readability/tone ambiguity is more pronounced for firms with weak corporate governance. Overall, the results suggest that CSR serves as a substitute for traditional corporate governance mechanisms to ensure transparent disclosure.