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Paulo Alves

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School

Assistant Professor

R. de Diogo Botelho, 1327

Porto, Porto 4169-005

Portugal

http://www.catolicabs.porto.ucp.pt/en/who-is/paulo-alves/1639

Lancaster University Management School - ICRA

Researcher

Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 4YX

United Kingdom

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

Retrieving, Classifying and Analysing Narrative Commentary in Unstructured (Glossy) Annual Reports Published as PDF Files

Accounting and Business Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2019
Lancaster University - School of Computing and Communications, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School, Lancaster University, The University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance
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Annual Reports, Textual Analysis, Text Retrieval, Document Structure, Corpus Linguistics

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The Choice between Project Financing and Corporate Financing: Evidence from the Corporate Syndicated Loan Market

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2020
Paulo Alves and João Pinto
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and CEGE
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project finance, syndicated loans, loan pricing, debt financing choice

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Mandatory Annual Report Descriptions of Business Model and Strategy, Investor Uncertainty, and Disclosure Cascade Effects

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 14 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2022
Saint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business, The University of Manchester - Manchester Business School, Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School, Lancaster University - School of Computing and Communications and Lancaster University
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Strategy, Annual Report Narratives, Textual Analysis, Information Asymmetry

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The Pricing of Sustainable Syndicated Loans

FEB-RN Research Paper No. 24/2024
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 02 Oct 2023
Paulo Alves, Jorge Gonçalo and João Pinto
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School, Golden Wealth Management and Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and CEGE
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ESG, syndicated loans, credit spreads, loan pricing, cost of borrowing

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And the Winner is... the Corporate Reporting Institution: Annual Report Awards as Sites of Translation, Diffusion and Boundary Spanning Work

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 13 May 2020 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2025
Jacqueline Gagnon, Steven Young and Paulo Alves
University of Regina, Lancaster University - Department of Accounting and Finance and Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School
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institutional work, shared understanding, boundary architect, principles-based regulation, relational space

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How Banks Price Loans for LBOs: An Empirical Analysis of Spread Determinants

Journal of Financial Services Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10693-021-00355-y
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2022
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and CEGE, Catolica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and Portuguese Catholic University - Porto
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loan pricing, LBOs, financial crisis, market-based, term structure of credit spreads

7.

Is There a Greenium in the Corporate Green Bond Market?

Forthcoming, EUROPEAN REVIEW OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Posted: 26 Sep 2023
João Pinto, Paulo Alves and Euclides Lopes
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and CEGE, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) - Católica Porto Business School

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green bonds, corporate bonds, greenium, ESG

8.

Financing Circular Economy Projects: A Clinical Study

European Review of Business Economics, VOL. II, NO. 1, 73-100
Posted: 28 Aug 2023
João Pinto, Paulo Alves and Cláudio Castendo
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and CEGE, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School and Portuguese Catholic University - Porto

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financing instruments; circular economy; ESG; clinical study