Over the past few years the concept of green investing has received considerable attention and has led to the formation of different forms of green investment avenues/portfolios, mutual funds, index, etc. This paper examines whether green stocks portfolio outperforms non-green stocks portfolios...

In a first of its kind, this paper examines the performance of various socially responsible stocks portfolios as compared to general stocks portfolios and market portfolio using return and various risk-adjusted measures over the period January 1996 – December 2013 and over different business...

One of the significant developments in the investing community is the rise of socially responsible or ethical investments during last two decades. Because of the increasing size and importance of ethical mutual funds, this paper seeks to evaluate and compare the performance of ethical mutual...

For the effective and better implementation of CSR law, development of SRI market in the investment world is essential. Unless the investors turn socially responsible, CSR principles cannot be enforced in practice. This paper examines whether the companies that are socially responsible are...

Retailing is the interface between the producer and the individual consumer buying for personal consumption. As such, retailing is the last link that connects the individual consumer with the manufacturing and distribution chain. This paper examines consumers’ attitudes and perceptions towards...

This paper examines whether the companies that are socially responsible are performing better than general companies in Indian stock market in terms of price discovery, return, risk and various risk-adjusted measures during different structural break periods (i.e. pre-crisis, crisis and...

One of the significant developments in the investing community is the rise of socially responsible or ethical investments during last two decades. Because of the increasing size and importance of ethical mutual funds, this paper seeks to evaluate and compare the performance of ethical mutual...

The primary purpose of this paper is to examine whether socially responsible companies are performing better than general companies in terms of price discovery and returns in the stock markets. Paradigm shift has taken place over time which has led to the emergence of conceptual framework of...