This paper focuses on the role of social factors for booms-bubbles-busts cycles in stock markets. It is argued that indirect and direct social influences are important contributors by reinforcing stock investors’ cognitive biases exaggerated by affective influences. A review of herding...

A survey was conducted to investigate investment style and drivers of socially responsible investment (SRI) among institutional investors. Respondents were 60 professionals working as SRI or non-SRI investors in 19 different Swedish banks, pension funds, or mutual fund companies. The results...

This study investigates determinants of equity investments according to socially responsible criteria among Swedish investors such as investment institutions, institutional investors and private investors. In total 38 investment institutions, 60 employees from 19 investment institutions, 453...

This paper investigates psychological drivers and financial motives that may influence major Swedish investments institutions to adopt Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). Based on an instrument that captures concepts in the Value-Belief-Norm theory by Stern et al. (1999), and potential...