Responsible investment and stock market shocks: short-term insurance and persistent outperformance post-crisis?

  • We investigate the differential effect of the COVID-19 shock to the stock market shock on the share prices of firms with different levels of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) scores. Thereby, we analyse whether and to what extent better ESG ratings provided insurance for investors in the stocks of those firms during this shock. We focus our analysis on the European market in which ESG investment plays a particularly important role. Using a broad sample of listed firms we provide mixed evidence. On the one hand, we show that immediately after the start of the shock firms with a higher ESG score outperformed their peers. On the other hand, this effect faded less than six weeks later. Given the quick recovery of the market our finding supports the idea that ESG stocks provide limited insurance in severe crises.

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Author:Jana Eisenkopf, Steffen JuranekORCiDGND, Uwe WalzORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-619948
URL:https://ssrn.com/abstract=3979761
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3979761
Parent Title (English):SAFE working paper ; No. 329
Series (Serial Number):SAFE working paper (329)
Publisher:SAFE
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2021
Year of first Publication:2021
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2021/12/20
Tag:ESG; Responsible investment; persistence; stock market crisis
Issue:This version: December 7, 2021
Page Number:23
HeBIS-PPN:489304931
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / House of Finance (HoF)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht