Do Investors Actually Value Sustainability Indices? Replication, Development, and New Evidence on CSR Visibility

Rodolphe Durand (), Luc Paugam and Hervé Stolowy ()

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Abstract: In this paper, we replicate and expand Hawn, Chatterji, & Mitchell (2018) that used DJSI events to measure variations in firms' CSR-activism and examined their effect on a firm's stock price. We use DJSI events to capture variations in firms' CSR visibility, holding CSR-activism constant by restricting our analyses to CSR-equivalent firms. First, we find similar results on stock price (i.e., no impact) and on trading volumes. Second, because professional market participants pay more attention to CSR-oriented firms and use visible cues such as DJSI- events, we study and find that additions to DJSI lead to more analysts following a firm, and that continuations on the DJSI lead to an increase in equity being held by long-term investors.

Keywords: DJSI; stock index; CSR; sustainability; event study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07-10
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