A Multi-Criteria Comparison of Financial Performance between Sustainable and Non-Sustainable Companies

Marianna Eskantar, Michalis Doumpos, Aggeliki Liadaki and Constantin Zopounidis

Chapter 6 in Recent Trends in Financial Engineering:Towards More Sustainable Social Impact, 2022, pp 115-129 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine whether Greek companies that apply Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria in their activities show better financial performance than companies that do not apply such criteria. The analysis considers 10 financial indicators for a sample of 56 Greek companies. With the application of the multi-criteria UTADIS method, the differences between the two groups of companies are examined. The results show that companies that apply ESG criteria seem to show a better financial performance in certain financial ratios, while the other indicators show indifference between the two categories of companies.

Keywords: Innovation; Equity-Crowdfunding; Capital Structure; Credit Default Swap; Machine Learning: Green Bonds; Impact Bonds; Shareholder Engagement; ESG; Systemic Risk; Sharing Economy; Impact Accounts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 F3 G3 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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