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    Economic uncertainty and climate change exposure
    (Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, 2025) Danisman, Gamze Ozturk; Bilyay-Erdogan, Seda; Demir, Ender
    This paper explores how economic uncertainty affects firms' climate change exposure. We use an extensive sample from 24 countries from 2002 to 2021. Employing a novel measure of firm-level climate change exposure developed by Sautner et al. (2023b), we empirically demonstrate that prior to the Paris Agreement in 2015, economic uncertainty leads to a decrease in climate change disclosures. However, after the Paris Agreement, our findings reveal a positive association between economic uncertainty and climate change exposure. The positive disclosure effect is primarily driven by higher climate-related opportunities and regulatory exposures. Our findings are robust when we employ alternative definitions for economic uncertainty, alternative samples, additional firm-level and country-level control variables, and alternative methodologies. We find that institutional and foreign ownership positively moderates the association between economic uncertainty and climate change exposure after the Paris Agreement. Further analysis investigates the moderating impact of country-level environmental performance indicators. We present novel empirical evidence suggesting that firms operating in countries with less climate vulnerability, higher readiness, more stringent environmental policies, superior climate protection performance, and higher environmental litigation risk tend to have higher climate change exposure in uncertain times.
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    ESG performance and dividend payout: A channel analysis
    (Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2023) Bilyay-Erdogan, Seda; Danisman, Gamze Ozturk; Demir, Ender
    This paper investigates the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on corporate dividend policy. We employ a panel data set comprised of 1094 non-financial listed firms in 21 European countries from 2002 to 2019. We show that companies with higher ESG performance are likely to pay higher dividends. Our results are robust to alternative variable definitions and specifications and address endogeneity concerns. We next investigate the possible transmission channels through which corporate ESG performance enhances dividend payouts. We present novel evidence that earnings and risk are the two possible channels through which ESG performance augments corporate dividends.
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    ESG performance and investment efficiency: The impact of information asymmetry
    (Elsevier, 2024) Bilyay-Erdogan, Seda; Danisman, Gamze Ozturk; Demir, Ender
    This paper investigates the relationship between firms' engagement in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities and corporate investment efficiency, using 1,094 firms from 21 countries in Europe, covering the years 2002-2019. We conduct our estimations using fixed effects panel data techniques and address potential endogeneity with instrumental variables (IV) estimations. We provide evidence that overall ESG engagement is positively and significantly associated with investment efficiency. Analyzing overinvestment and underinvestment scenarios shows that ESG engagement decreases only overinvestment problems. Within the underinvestment scenario, we observe that ESG engagement is beneficial only for firms with higher information asymmetries. Thus, information asymmetry matters in the underinvestment case. We next show that four firm-level channels-information asymmetry, financial constraints, cash flows, and risk-link ESG performance to investment inefficiency. Additional analysis shows that firms with extreme ESG scores (i.e., very low and very high) do not experience significant reductions in investment inefficiency. Altogether, our findings draw attention to the critical role of ESG performance and information asymmetry in determining corporate investment efficiency.