The paper addresses the link between the social component of corporate social responsibility and market value of equities. Preceding results on this topic are, to our knowledge, still scarce and not really conclusive. Using a both rich and worldwide dataset, Asset4 – Thomson Reuters, we find...

Do socially responsible firms benefit from ethical goodwill? On the one hand, taking externalities into account can be a competitive disadvantage. On the other hand, financial benefits may result from ethical behavior. Thanks to a worldwide dataset of ESG ratings (MSCI ESG ratings), we examine...

In this paper, I study identification of a nonseparable model with endogeneity arising due to unobserved heterogeneity. Identification relies on the availability of binary proxies that can be used to control for the unobserved heterogeneity. I show that the model is identified in the limit as...

The mimetism observed on financial market is often explained by an individual choice. These explanations do not consider social influences of norms, organization and institutions. We propose to analyze the social roots of financial imitation by considering decision done by mutual funds’...

L'objectif de notre recherche est d'étudier l'impact de la structure de l'actionnariat sur la gestion du résultat des sociétés cotées françaises. L'étude est conduite sur un échantillon de sociétés cotées de l'indice SBF 250 sur la période 2004-2008. La concentration de...

À partir d'un échantillon de 52 changements de dirigeants au sein d'entreprises françaises cotées entre 2000 et 2005, les choix comptables effectués par les dirigeants sortants et entrants sont analysés. L'étude des accruals discrétionnaires montre d'abord que les dirigeants sortants ont...

L'influence sociale peut être mise en évidence lorsqu'un sujet abandonne sa propre analyse d'une société afin de suivre le consensus des analystes. Grâce à une situation expérimentale proche de celle employée par Cote et Sanders (1997), différentes hypothèses sur la genèse de ce...

We test hypotheses on herd behavior in a simple investment decision through an experimental setting. Subjects were given some fundamental information about a specific firm and asked for a recommendation, buy or sell. This personal judgment was then confronted to the opposed consensus of...

Drawing on a survey of 671 French individual investors, we document for the first time the connection between emotions towards the environment and investment in green funds. Both eco-anxiety and connectedness to nature have a significant impact on deciding to invest in green funds, but,...