The purpose of this paper is to study whether speculative activities are ethically justified. The importance of this topic derives from the fact that many of the activities which configure a modern economy contain a speculative component. The analysis is based on the premise that the ethical...

This paper examines the performance of technical trading rules in Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) indices. Unlike previous studies, we separate technical trading rules into those that aim to trend-follow and those that employ mean-reversion. Using three popular FTSE4Good indices, we show...

Does morality in business affect investors’ choice of stocks? Building on the source preference literature, we propose a novel measure of moral stock preference and offer a nested model relating it to social preference, attention to corporate social responsibility (CSR), and belief bias. We...

The HODL ideology overgeneralizes the buy-and-hold strategy for risky assets, leading to potential harm in investor wealth accumulation and investor-advisor relations. It originates from misunderstandings of financial theories, empirical evidence, technical analysis, and market timing. I provide...

In the last decades, labor rights violations and tangible environmental challenges have caused companies to come under increasing society’s pressure to achieve environmental and social goals. Using a novel dataset on worldwide industrial disasters and companies (allegedly) involved in them, I...