Corporate social responsibility has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps towards a more sustainable future. Yet global environmental indicators continue to worsen, and individual corporate efforts may be hitting the point of diminishing returns. Voluntary action by the...

This article analyzes the economics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as a private response to market imperfections to satisfy social preferences. Depending on whether they affect regulation, competition, or contracts, market imperfections driving CSR decisions are classified in three...

This article analyzes the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance by proposing a theoretical model and by testing empirically its main predictions on a matched panel database for the biggest European listed firms over the 2002-2007 period. Our dataset...