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Can sustainable investing save the world? : reviewing the mechanisms of investor impact
Kölbel, Julian; Heeb, Florian; Paetzold, Falko; Busch, Timo - 2020
This article asks how sustainable investing (SI) contributes to societal goals, conducting a literature review on investor impact—that is, the change investors trigger in companies' environmental and social impact. We distinguish three impact mechanisms: shareholder engagement, capital...
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Using green and ESG assets to achieve post-COVID-19 environmental sustainability
Hasan, Md. Bokhtiar; Rashid, Md. Mamunur; Hossain, Md. Naiem - In: Fulbright review of economics and policy 3 (2023) 1, pp. 25-48
. Practical implications - Both investors and policymakers may use these findings to make wise investment and policy choices to … turbulent periods may contribute to the post-COVID investment portfolio for environmental sustainability. …
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Green versus sustainable loans : the impact on firms' ESG performance
Dursun-de-Neef, Özlem; Ongena, Steven; Tsonkova, Gergana - 2022 - This draft: May 20, 2022
This paper studies the development of a firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance following the issuance of “green loans” earmarked for green projects versus “sustainable loans” to firms bench-marked by ESG criteria. Firms issuing green loans appear to be effective...
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Sustainable finance literacy and the determinants of sustainable investing
Filippini, Massimo; Leippold, Markus; Wekhof, Tobias - 2022
This paper introduces the concept of sustainable finance literacy, which refers to retail investors' knowledge of regulations, norms, and standards for financial products with sustainable characteristics. We survey a large sample of Swiss households and measure different literacy concepts using...
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The sustainability wage gap
Krüger, Philipp; Metzger, Daniel; Wu, Jiaxin - 2020
A large literature documents a positive correlation between a firm's sustainability or ESG policies and firm value. However, the exact mechanism through which this relation arises remains ambiguous and it is often hard to establish the direction of causation. In this paper we propose and test...
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The role of green investment and corporate social responsibility investment on sustainable performance
Indriastuti, Maya; Chariri, Anis - In: Cogent business & management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21
Studies on green investment and corporate social responsibility (CSR) investment has been conducted by some researchers … and financial performance, but only a few have examined how green investment, CSR investment, and sustainability are … Exchange from 2016 to 2019. This study found that green investment and CSR investment positively affect financial performance …
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Capitalizing on Sustainability : The Value of Going Green
Kim, Taehyun - 2020
We investigate how corporate environmental responsibility (CER) actions affect firm value. We adopt an event studies approach using two narrowly-decided 5-to-4 Supreme Court rulings and show that firms gain value when they are expected to increase their CER activities. The market reactions are...
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Integrating Sustainability Risks in Asset Management : The Role of ESG Exposures and ESG Ratings
Hübel, Benjamin - 2020
The rising sustainability awareness among regulators, consumers and investors results in major sustainability risks for firms. We construct three ESG risk factors (Environmental, Social, and Governance) to quantify the ESG risk exposures of firms. Taking these factors into account significantly...
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Principles of Sustainable Finance
Schoenmaker, Dirk - 2019
, empirical data, and policy to explain the sustainability challenges for corporate investment. It shows how investors and bankers …
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Looking beyond ESG preferences : the role of sustainable finance literacy in sustainable investing
Auzepy, Alix; Bannier, Christina E.; Gärtner, Florian - 2024
We assess how sustainable finance literacy affects people's sustainable investment behavior, using a pre … sustainable investments. Our findings underscore the role of knowledge in shaping sustainable investment decisions, highlighting …
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