We consider a network of equity mutual funds characterized by different levels of compliance with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) aspects. We measure the impact of portfolio liquidation in a stress scenario on funds with different ESG rates. Fire sales spillover from portfolio...

A network model is introduced and developed to compare portfolios of funds which are high ranked in Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) aspects with those with a poor ESG compliance. The nodes in the network represent funds and the edges are weighted on the basis of the capitalization due...

Firms that score low on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators exhibit higher expected returns. This negative ESG premium might be driven by higher risk associated with low ESG scores, or it could signal investors' preferences for firms with high ESG scores. The first driver...

A typical argument in the literature is that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reduces the risk of conflicts with stakeholders. By considering the multidimensional nature of corporate responsible performances we create domain specific (size interacted) CSR portfolios and test if the CSR...

We investigate the performance of Socially Responsible Funds (SRFs) and Conventional Funds (CFs) in different market segments during the 1992-2012 period. From an unbalanced sample of more that 22,000 funds, we define a matched sample using a beta-distance measure to match any SRF with the...

We investigate to what extent ESG funds present an herding/anti-herding behavior, and the consequences of their investment strategies in terms of both systematic risk exposure and risk-adjusted returns. Our findings document that ESG funds pursue an anti-herding strategy that leads to higher...