This paper empirically studies whether people and investors globally really see climate change as a major threat, as defined by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Our identification strategy aims to investigate two research questions: (1) whether people attention to Climate...

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings feature statistical and economic problems undermining their reliability as valid proxies for corporates’ social performance. To overcome this ratings providers specific bias, we focus on global sample of ESG-oriented Exchange Traded Funds...

A modern view of stakeholder theory considers that ethical behaviour and profit are not contradictory. Under this framework and in the Merger and Acquisitions context we would like to investigate whether companies with well-developed Corporate Social Responsibility engage stakeholders in a...