ESG Investing in Good and Bad Times: An International Study

Title: ESG Investing in Good and Bad Times: An International Study
Creator: Long, Huaigang; Chiah, Mardy; Cakici, Nusret; Zaremba, Adam; Huseyin Bilgin, Mehmet
Relation: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money Vol. 91, Issue March 2024, no. 101916
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101916
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2024
Description: If the demand for socially responsible stocks depends on aggregate wealth, their returns may rise when the economy is booming and fall when it is struggling. Motivated by the consistent evidence from the United States, we revisit this effect internationally. Using data from 45 markets, we examine how the economic conditions affect environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies. We find that high-rated ESG firms fail to outperform their low-rated counterparts in good and bad times alike. The abnormal returns on ESG strategies do not reliably differ across economic states. Previous contrasting evidence does not generalize internationally and is likely sample- and period-specific.
Subject: socially responsible investing; environmental; social, and governance ratings; ESG strategies; international stock markets; conditional returns; economic states; return predictability
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1500895
Identifier: uon:55034
Identifier: ISSN:1042-4431
Language: eng
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