Carbon Risk, Carbon Risk Awareness and the Cost of Debt Financing

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1151-1171

  Jung, Juhyun ^a   Herbohn, Kathleen ^a   Clarkson, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon awareness; Carbon emissions; CDP; Cost of debt

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049603984     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3207-6     Document Type: Article

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