Green Financing, Leverage, and Dividend Policy Dynamics: Evidence From a Causal Machine Learning and Bayesian Framework
This study examines how sustainable finance shapes dividend policy among 143 nonfinancial firms listed on the London Stock Exchange—a market with strict sustainability disclosure standards—over 2007–2023, using firm‐level data from Thomson Reuters Eikon DataStream. To capture average, heterogeneous, and time‐varying...