Pricing Sin Stocks: Ethical Preference vs. Risk Aversion

Giuliano Curatola, Stefano Colonnello and Alessandro Gioffré
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alessandro Gioffré

Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: We develop a model that reproduces the average return and volatility spread between sin and non-sin stocks. Our investors do not necessarily boycott sin companies. Rather, they are open to invest in any company while trading off dividends against ethicalness. We show that when dividends and ethicalness are complementary goods and investors are sufficiently risk averse, the model predicts that the dividend share of sin companies exhibits a positive relation with the future return and volatility spreads. Our empirical analysis supports the model's predictions.

Keywords: Asset Pricing; General Equilibrium; Sin Stocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D51 D91 E20 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2018
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