Chang, Ran; Chu, Liya; Tu, Jun; Zhang, Bohui; Zhou, Guofu - 2022
We examine the relation between firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and aggregate stock … market returns. Based on 38 ESG scores, we construct a market-level ESG index and find its strong positive predictive power … market-wide impact of the ESG provides support for the economy-wide importance of the ESG and the associated policies …