The performance of socially responsible investments: A meta-analysis

In this article, we use a meta-analysis to examine the performance of socially responsible investing (SRI). We find that, on average, SRI neither outperforms nor underperforms the market portfolio. However, in line with modern portfolio theory, we find that global SRI portfolios outperform regional subportfolios. Moreover, high-quality publications, publications in finance journals and authors who publish more frequently on SRI are all less likely to report SRI outperformance. In particular, we find that including more factors in a capital market model reduces the likelihood that a study will find SRI outperformance.     

ESG信息披露提升了企业投资效率吗？——非财务信息披露的财务作用

基于2010—2022年A股上市公司数据,将商道融绿首次公布上市公司ESG评级作为准自然实验,采用多期双重差分模型实证检验ESG信息披露对企业投资效率的影响效应及作用机制。研究结果显示,ESG信息披露能够有效提升企业投资效率,且这一结论在进行多项稳健性检验后依然成立。机制分析结果表明,抑制企业短视、缓解融资约束和降低环境不确定性是ESG信息披露提升企业投资效率的有效作用渠道。异质性分析发现,ESG信息披露对企业投资效率的促进作用在非国有企业、高数字化水平企业和市场化程度高的地区中更为明显。研究结论在实践层面为构建与完善企业可持续发展体系提供了经验证据,对促使企业积极履行社会责任、推动中国经济高质量发展具有重要意义。     

发行绿色债券与企业ESG 表现：来自中国的机制与实证发现

本文以绿色债券为切入点,研究其发行与企业ESG 得分之间的相互关系,解释企业ESG 目标实现的多个触发因素和努力动机。本文从CSMAR 国泰安等数据库中收集并筛选了5737 个观测样本,利用双重差分等计量经济学模型,发现绿色债券发行与企业ESG 评分的提升存在较强的相关性,且这种效应在国有企业、高环境规制地区和低人均工业GDP 地区更显著。机制研究发现,环境信息披露的改善、管理者短视的减少和分析师关注均为正向中介变量。最后,绿色债券发行对企业的财务状况具有积极影响。     

Evaluating research and education performance in Indian agricultural development

India's agricultural research spending has long been regionally uneven. Regional research intensity ratios, which account for size differences, indicate research spending has consistently favored southern and western states over northern, central, and eastern ones. Farm production patterns have, however, changed in recent years and regional output growth is being driven by new commodity mixes. In this article, we ask which region had the highest factor productivity growth and rate of return to investments in public agricultural research and higher education. Our analysis relies on a 1980–2008 Indian agricultural production and policy data set together with a dual heteroscedastic production frontier to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into formal technical progress and efficiency elements. The model's regional flexibility affords region‐to‐region comparison of multiple research return rates, TFP growth, and the elements influencing them. Regardless of return‐rate measure or allocation scenario evaluated, the North has enjoyed the highest return to research spending, and the Central and East the lowest. Factor productivity growth has however been strongest in the South, primarily on account of efficiency gains. Overall, though, the technical progress and productivity growth easily attributable to government‐supported research has accounted for about one‐quarter of the sector's TFP growth.     

基于修正IPA分析法的民宿顾客满意度研究——以温州为例

传统IPA分析法以顾客自述重要性和满意度来评测各项影响顾客满意度的指标,因其概念的基础假设在使用时的缺失而不够准确。本文以温州民宿为例,使用修正的IPA分析法对影响民宿顾客满意度的22个指标进行分析,研究发现:顾客对可进入性和整体形象的认可度和满意度较高,对附属设施和服务质量的满意度较低,但关注度较高,需要着力提高,对设施设备和性价比的关注较低,满意度一般。     

“双碳”新格局下企业绿色技术创新对其 ESG 绩效的影响及其路径研究

2030年前实现“碳达峰”,2060年前实现“碳中和”是中国对世界的郑重承诺,表现出了中国的担当精神。在“双碳”新格局下,局限于企业的经济表现的传统绩效衡量办法不足以满足现代化投资的需要,综合评价企业环境、社会和管理三个方面的ESG绩效体现出巨大优势。各类绿色政策的出台引导企业走向绿色技术创新,那么绿色技术创新会对企业ESG绩效产生什么影响？本文基于2011—2020年的A股上市公司数据,采用固定效应模型进行实证检验。研究表明,企业绿色技术创新会对企业ESG绩效产生促进作用;实用新型绿色技术创新对ESG的促进作用大于发明型绿色技术创新的促进作用;并深入研究发现,先通过绿色技术创新再提升市场竞争力最后实现企业ESG绩效的优化是最重要的影响路径。     

石化行业上市公司ESG报告信息披露探究

2018年修改的《上市公司治理准则》明确要求上市公司在公司治理中贯彻落实绿色、开放发展观,并确立ESG信息披露框架。目前证监会对上市公司ESG信息披露持鼓励态度,随着可持续发展在国内的逐步推进,可以预料未来上市公司披露ESG报告是大势所趋。石化行业作为经济支柱,业内上市公司应尽早关注ESG发展,部署可持续发展战略,将ESG建设纳入企业管理并定期发布ESG报告。通过收集2018—2020年深沪上市的石化行业上市公司ESG披露信息,分析ESG在石化行业上市公司中的披露情况,探寻企业在披露ESG报告中存在的问题,并提出相应对策,为石化行业上市公司ESG报告规范披露提供参考。     

Socially responsible investing (SRI): From mainstream to margin?

This article discusses the place of ethics within socially responsible investing (SRI) and tries to understand whether the debate about the spread of SRI strategies for all asset management practices (SRI mainstreaming) is necessary for SRI development. We conclude that the mainstreaming of SRI in global investment funds has transformed the original goal of “making good” into a quest for profitability. We also add that SRI must place ethics at the center of the debate in order to regain the primary virtuous logic it had when it was still part of a “margin” or niche market.     

Enhancing Market Valuation of ESG Performance: Is Integrated Reporting Keeping its Promise?

This paper studies the effectiveness of a firm's strategy to report on its ESG activities with regard to the extent and direction in which the firm's ESG performance is valued by capital market investors. It is the first to disentangle the moderating effects of different types of ESG reporting on market valuation of ESG performance and to analyze whether following the current integrated reporting trend is worth the effort. Results indicate that ESG performance is valued more strongly and in the (desired) positive direction when firms publish an ESG report, irrespective of its type (stand‐alone or integrated). Furthermore, integrated reporting is associated with superior outcomes compared with a stand‐alone report for composite ESG and corporate governance performance. Our findings are important for corporate managers, as they help to understand market valuation of ESG performance in dependence on the reporting type and provide guidance for formulating and evaluating the reporting strategy. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

Environmental Responsibility and Firm Performance: The Application of an Environmental,Social and Governance Model

This paper investigates the way in which environmental responsibility impacts on corporate financial performance, measured by return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA). Using a sample of Korean firms covering the period 2011–2012, and employing two different test methods, namely the OLS and 2SLS methods, we show that the relationships between environmental responsibility performance and firms’ ROE and ROA are positive and statistically significant. However, we show that research and development (R&D) intensity (expenditure) does not affect either environmental responsibility or corporate financial performance. The results of this analysis encourage further empirical analysis of the industries, as well as the use of more than one estimation method to determine environmental responsibility and corporate financial performance within firms. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment