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The present paper proposes an overview of the existing literature covering several aspects related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. Specifically, we consider studies describing and evaluating ESG methodologies and those studying the impact of ESG on credit risk, debt and...
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Although there is an increasing demand for sustainable investment products accompanied by increasing regulations … regarding sustainability disclosures, people suffer from a lack of information concerning the offered investment products …' sustainability. Despite hundreds of ESG indicators for standard investment products available in the literature, there is no holistic …
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investments relative to conventional investment funds. Our results suggest that the traditional trade-off between investment fund … risk and return is still valid in the selection of sustainable investment funds. The environment focus is more important … for the choice of sustainable investment then social or governance aspects. Latent behavioural characteristics …
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to social and environmental problems uncovering the effect of sustainability on companies' investment decisions …
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corporate social responsibility departments, but a CEO-level issue fundamental to the core business. Within the investment …
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We propose a theory in which each stock's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) score plays two roles: 1) providing information about firm fundamentals and 2) affecting investor preferences. The solution to the investor's portfolio problem is characterized by an ESG-efficient frontier,...
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investor motivations vary across forms of sustainable investment strategies, in particular between broad sustainable … microfinance investment vehicle to analyze how different motives affect the demand for distinct sustainable investments. Our … sustainable investments are mainly linked to return and risk expectations, the investment decision for the impact investment …
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A network model is introduced and developed to compare portfolios of funds which are high ranked in Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) aspects with those with a poor ESG compliance. The nodes in the network represent funds and the edges are weighted on the basis of the capitalization due...
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1998-2012, we investigate the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and investment efficiency. In … (stakeholders theory), we find strong and robust evidence that high CSR involvement decreases investment inefficiency and … consequently increases investment efficiency. Moreover, our findings suggest that CSR components that are directly related to firms …
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willing to accept lower returns than their best investment alternatives and entrepreneurs maximize profits. If capital markets …
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