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...

We develop a model that reproduces the average return and volatility spread between sin and non-sin stocks. Our investors do not necessarily boycott sin companies. Rather, they are open to invest in any company while trading off dividends against ethicalness. We show that when dividends and...

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...