Climate change concerns and the performance of green vs. brown stocks

D Ardia, K Bluteau, K Boudt… - Management …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We empirically test the prediction of that green firms outperform brown firms when concerns
about climate change increase unexpectedly, using data for S&P 500 companies from …

Climate change news risk and corporate bond returns

TD Huynh, Y Xia - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021 - cambridge.org
We examine whether climate change news risk is priced in corporate bonds. We estimate
bond covariance with a climate change news index and find that bonds with a higher climate …

The pollution premium

PH Hsu, K Li, CY Tsou - The Journal of Finance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies the asset pricing implications of industrial pollution. A long‐short portfolio
constructed from firms with high versus low toxic emission intensity within an industry …

Dissecting climate risks: Are they reflected in stock prices?

R Faccini, R Matin, G Skiadopoulos - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide first-time evidence on whether market-wide physical or transition climate risks
are priced in US stocks. Textual and narrative analysis of Reuters climate-change news over …

Economic policy uncertainty exposure and corporate innovation investment: Evidence from China

X Cui, C Wang, J Liao, Z Fang, F Cheng - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates the impact of firms' heterogeneous exposure to economic policy
uncertainty (EPU exposure) on corporate innovation investment. The results show that, first …

[HTML][HTML] Tail-event driven NETwork dependence in emerging markets

MA Naeem, I Yousaf, S Karim, L Yarovaya… - Emerging Markets Review, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper employs the Tail Event NETwork (TENET) to identify financial markets with
greater potential risk, and simultaneously investigate the interdependence between them …

[HTML][HTML] Lean against the wind: The effect of policy uncertainty on a firm's corporate social responsibility strategy

D Peng, G Colak, J Shen - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of policy uncertainty on firms' strategy of corporate social
responsibility (CSR). During uncertain times, firms strategically increase their commitment to …

What is certain about uncertainty?

D Cascaldi-Garcia, C Sarisoy, JM Londono… - Journal of Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of existing measures of uncertainty, risk, and
volatility, noting their conceptual distinctions. It summarizes how they are constructed, their …

COVID-19: Fear of pandemic and short-term IPO performance

S Mazumder, P Saha - Finance research letters, 2021 - Elsevier
This study analyzes the relationship between COVID-19 related fear and short-term IPO
performance. Though the average market-adjusted initial return of IPOs in the year 2020 is …

Twitter-Based uncertainty and cryptocurrency returns

DY Aharon, E Demir, CKM Lau, A Zaremba - Research in International …, 2022 - Elsevier
We explore the relationship between two novel Twitter-based measures of economic and
market uncertainty and the performance of four major cryptocurrencies. Using a battery of …