Socially optimal sustainability standards with non-consequentialist ("warm glow") investors
Roman Inderst, Marcus M. Opp
Agencies around the world are in the process of developing taxonomies and standards for sustainable (or ESG) investment products. A key assumption in our model is that of non-consequentialist private investors (households) who derive a "warm glow" decisional utility when purchasing an investment product that is labelled as sustainable. We ask when such labelling is socially beneficial even when the socialplanner can impose a minimum standard on investment and production. In a model of financial constraints (Holmström and Tirole 1997), which we close to include consumer surplus, we also determine the optimal labelling threshold and show how its stringency is affected by determinants such as the prevalence of warm-glow investor preferences, the presence of social network effects, or the relevance of financial constraints at the industry level
Year of publication: |
2022
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Authors: | Inderst, Roman ; Opp, Marcus M. |
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2022: Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | SAFE working paper ; No. 346 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.4065630 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288781
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