Pervasive herding may cause homogenous trading patterns, both within and across stocks and thus may impact upon an important aspect of the market microstructure – liquidity. Potentially, herding could simultaneously affect the liquidity of both individual stocks and that of the market. For...

We investigate the effect of environmental, social and governance factors on the financial performance of a sample UK firms. We examine the three factors separately in order to disentangle the relation of each with financial performance. We find that, overall, there is no difference in the...

We investigate the effect of environmental, social and governance factors on the financial performance of UK firms. We examine the three factors separately to disentangle the relation of each with performance. We find no difference in the performance of firms with high or low environmental,...

We find compelling evidence that integrating Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) analyses into ongoing investment practices in Australia does not harm risk-adjusted returns. High-ESG-rated portfolios consistently provide superior outperformance, diversification efficiencies, and lower...

The core goal of this study is to empirically investigate whether there is a “world price” of corporate sustainability. This is assessed in the context of standard asset pricing models—in particular, by asking whether a risk premium attaches to a sustainability factor after controlling for...