This paper identifies a select few indicators from a large set of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors; and introduces a corporate sustainability measure. Sustainable part of corporate social performance completely explains its well-documented relation with firm values even after...

Using a novel sample of foreign securities available for trade in 42 countries during the last four decades (1979-2018), we characterize the rise in importance of foreign stocks for investors in their host countries and its implications for diversification benefits across industries and...

We study the impact on firm valuation of a novel exogenous shock to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data that affects how firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance is measured. Our analysis reveals that firms that get their CSR ratings artificially boosted by a...

We study the relative importance of investor, manager, and firm heterogeneities on firms' Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies. We find that investor fixed effects explain most of the variation in ESG choices. The improvement in the model fit from adding investor effects is...