Matthias Horn , Andreas Oehler , Amal Dabbous , Alexandre Croutzet
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The relation between environmental awareness and stock returns
We analyze the green stock premium and assess if a measure of global environmental awareness can forecast the returns of stocks listed in the MSCI North America All Cap Index from 2010 to 2019. The E-pillar score of Sustainalytics’ ESG rating is used as a proxy for companies' environmental risk. We find that stocks with a higher environmental risk show higher returns and alphas, on average. When environmental awareness among investors increases stock returns decrease, on average. However, stocks of more environmentally friendly companies suffer less during such periods. Therefore, stocks with lower environmental risk reduce the differences in returns and alphas or even show higher returns and alphas than stocks with higher environmental risk.
期刊介绍:
The International Review of Economics & Finance (IREF) is a scholarly journal devoted to the publication of high quality theoretical and empirical articles in all areas of international economics, macroeconomics and financial economics. Contributions that facilitate the communications between the real and the financial sectors of the economy are of particular interest.