The effect of socially responsible investing on portfolio performance

European Financial Management

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 908-922

  Kempf, Alexander ^a   Osthoff, Peer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Portfolio management; Socially responsible investing; Trading strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548966695     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00402.x     Document Type: Article

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