We study whether the threat of exit by institutional investors can induce firms to voluntarily disclose their environmental policies. To address concerns about reverse causality and omitted variables, we implement a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to conduct our empirical tests. The...

Institutional investors appear to have selective preferences regarding corporate social responsibility. They appear indifferent to the presence of positive environmental (E) and social (S) indicators, but underweight stocks with negative ES indicators. This asymmetric pattern is particularly...