Firms and social responsibility: A review of ESG and CSR research in corporate finance

SL Gillan, A Koch, LT Starks - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the financial economics-based research on Environmental, Social, and
Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with an emphasis on …

Climate finance

S Giglio, B Kelly, J Stroebel - Annual review of financial …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In this article, we review the literature studying interactions between climate change and
financial markets. We first discuss various approaches to incorporating climate risk in …

Presidential Address: Sustainable Finance and ESG Issues—Value versus Values

LT Starks - The Journal of Finance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this address, I discuss differences across investor and manager motivations for
considering sustainable finance—value versus values motivations—and how these …

Dissecting green returns

Ľ Pástor, RF Stambaugh, LA Taylor - Journal of financial economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Green assets delivered high returns in recent years. This performance reflects unexpectedly
strong increases in environmental concerns, not high expected returns. German green …

What do you think about climate finance?

J Stroebel, J Wurgler - Journal of Financial Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We survey 861 finance academics, professionals, and public sector regulators and policy
economists about climate finance topics. They identify regulatory risk as the top climate risk …

The effects of mandatory ESG disclosure around the world

P Krueger, Z Sautner, DY Tang… - Journal of Accounting …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We compile a novel data set on mandatory environmental, social, and governance (ESG)
disclosure around the world to analyze the stock liquidity effects of such disclosure …

Sustainable investing with ESG rating uncertainty

D Avramov, S Cheng, A Lioui, A Tarelli - Journal of financial economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the asset pricing and portfolio implications of an important barrier to
sustainable investing: uncertainty about the corporate ESG profile. In equilibrium, the market …

The role of ESG performance during times of financial crisis: Evidence from COVID-19 in China

DC Broadstock, K Chan, LTW Cheng, X Wang - Finance research letters, 2021 - Elsevier
We examine the role of ESG performance during market-wide financial crisis, triggered in
response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The unique circumstances create an inimitable …

Firm‐level climate change exposure

Z Sautner, L Van Lent, G Vilkov… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a method that identifies the attention paid by earnings call participants to firms'
climate change exposures. The method adapts a machine learning keyword discovery …

Climate change concerns and the performance of green vs. brown stocks

D Ardia, K Bluteau, K Boudt… - Management …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We empirically test the prediction of that green firms outperform brown firms when concerns
about climate change increase unexpectedly, using data for S&P 500 companies from …