Investor Valuation for Socially Responsible Assets: A Willingness to Pay Experiment

Sébastien Pouget, Daniel Brodback, Nadja Guenster and Ruichen Wang
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Sébastien Pouget: TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, TSM - Toulouse School of Management Research - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - TSM - Toulouse School of Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse
Daniel Brodback: Unknown
Nadja Guenster: Unknown
Ruichen Wang: TSM - Toulouse School of Management Research - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - TSM - Toulouse School of Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - Comue de Toulouse - Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse

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Abstract: We present an experimental study of investors' willingness to pay for socially responsible assets. In our initial public offering experiment, various assets share identical financial risk-return profiles but differ in the intensity and timing of societal benefits, represented by charitable donations. We find that subjects value societal benefits positively and prefer a positive correlation between financial returns and these societal benefits. We offer implications for the design of corporate social responsibility policies and for the pricing of responsible assets.

Keywords: Socially Responsible Investing; Investment Decisions; ESG Preferences; Experimental Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10-13
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Published in Management Science, 2025, ⟨10.1287/mnsc.2022.01349⟩

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DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2022.01349

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