Socialium or the Financial Price of Social Responsibility

« Socialium » ou le prix financier de la responsabilité sociale

Diana Pop (), Caroline Marie-Jeanne () and Régis Dumoulin ()
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Diana Pop: GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Caroline Marie-Jeanne: GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Régis Dumoulin: GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: In this paper, we investigate whether investors are willing to pay a higher price to invest in social projects, a differential that we call socialium. Using a nearest neighbor matching procedure on various samples of social and conventional bonds issued between September 2015 and 2020, by public or transnational organisations, we find that, on average, there is no yield and spread differential neither on the primary nor on the secondary market. The result holds even after taking into account the impact on market liquidity or shocks linked to political and economic uncertainty, likely to address silent issues of social risks. The empirical results on the size of socialium, which are not statistically significant, provide us with a rare opportunity to bridge two streams of reasoning stemming from the financial and sociological approaches. We explain why the issuers and investors still bear an interest for the social bonds through the lens of new institutionalism. This theory explains how the social influences, institutional and mimetic pressures and the acquisition of legitimacy in the eyes of society and stakeholders influence the issuance and the acceptance of social bonds.

Keywords: social bonds socialium market liquidity legitimacy. Classification JEL: G12 I00 P43 Z13; social bonds; socialium; market liquidity; legitimacy. Classification JEL: G12; I00; P43; Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-26
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Published in Annual Conference of Asian Finance Association, Asian Finance Association, Jun 2023, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

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