Handbook of ESG Investing

Edited by Hans Lööf, Maziar Sahamkhadam and Andreas Stephan

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are reshaping long-term investment strategies. Leading experts demonstrate how ESG principles can guide investment choices, influence risk and return, and connect to broader goals such as corporate social responsibility and impact investing. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Keywords: Sustainable Finance; Portfolio Management; Impact Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility; Reporting Standards; Esg Investing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035322770
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 An overview of ESG investing

Hans Lööf, Maziar Sahamkhadam and Andreas Stephan

Ch 2 ESG: from process to product

George Serafeim

Ch 3 The information content of ESG ratings: implications for ESG investing

Emanuele Chini, Roman Kräussl and Denitsa Stefanova

Ch 4 ESG contracting and managerial incentives

Patricia Crifo and Aymeric Guidoux

Ch 5 Beyond labels: a methodological framework for comparing green and conventional funds1

Axel Lavenius and Mark Sanctuary

Ch 6 Path-dependent, ESG-valued, option pricing in the Bachelier–Black–Scholes–Merton model

Bhathiya Divelgama, Nancy Asare Nyarko, W. Brent Lindquist, Svetlozar (Zari) Rachev and Blessing Omotade

Ch 7 Integrating socially responsible criteria in modern portfolio theory via a tradeoff between focusing on the data of stock returns and their ESG scoring

Tomer Shushi

Ch 8 ESG optimal portfolios under ratings ambiguity

Davide Lauria, Marco Bonomelli, Gabriele Torri and Rosella Giacometti

Ch 9 Global view on the ESG valuation in stock markets

Juha-Pekka Junttila, Heikki Lehkonen and Thanh Nam Vu

Ch 10 ESG performance and investor impact in public and private equities

Andreas Gruener and Jonas Wieckert

Ch 11 Do green bonds and ESG leaders enhance multi-asset portfolios? A performance analysis

Maziar Sahamkhadam and Andreas Stephan

Ch 12 ESG characteristics and ETF returns

Ilias Filippou, Ruiqi Hu and Taizhi Wu

Ch 13 Wavelet analysis and the financial performance of ESG strategies

Michaela M. Kiermeier

Ch 14 Science-based target initiative and the cross-section of returns

Petter Dahlström, Hans Lööf, Maziar Sahamkhadam and Andreas Stephan

Ch 15 ESG practices: a comparative overview of developed and emerging markets

Henrique Castro Martins

Ch 16 The issue of sustainability reporting in global value chains: barriers and regulatory perspectives

Purnima Rao, Nisha Goyal, Radhika Narula and Akshat Aditya Rao

Ch 17 Big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning for measuring ESG performance

Peter Öhman and Tarek Rana

Ch 18 Exit vs voice: a question of scalability?

Lucia Alessi, Yumeng Gao, Sergio Garcia-Vega, Andreas Hoepner and Fabiola Schneider

Ch 19 Measuring inequality in sustainability

Alessandra Amendola, Adelaide Emma Bernardelli and Paolo Giudici

Ch 20 Cognitive biases in ESG investing—uncovering psychological barriers to biodiversity-positive finance

Rafal Chudy and David N. Barton

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