The performance of socially responsible investments : a meta-analysis

This article evolved as part of the research project ‘Transformation-oriented innovation policy in the bio-economy-status, potentials and strategies’, which has been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number 031B0781A. The authors thank an anonymous referee, Gregor Dorfleitner, Christian Fieberg, Sebastian Gehricke, Fabian Hollstein, Bing Liang, Luc Renneboog, Simon Rottke, Eliza Stenzhorn, Armin Varmaz, Karl Weinmayer and the participants of the Annual Conference of the British Accounting and Finance Association (University of Sheffield), 8th Paris Financial Management Conference (IPAG Business School), SFiC Annual Conference Sustainability, Climate Change and Financial Innovation (University of Birmingham Dubai), the 3rd CEFGroup Climate Finance Symposium (University of Otago), the TILEC Seminar (Tilburg University), IFABS 2022 Naples Conference (University of Naples ‘Federico II’), the 15th Edition of the Annual Meeting of The Risk, Banking and Finance Society (LUM Giuseppe Degennaro—Free Mediterranean University), the HVB Doctoral seminar (University of Bremen), and the Conference on Sustainable Finance and Digitalization (Bremen University of Applied Sciences and DIW Berlin) for their helpful comments and suggestions.