What determines the inclusion in a sustainability stock index?. A panel data analysis for european firms

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 848-856

  Ziegler, Andreas ^a,b   Schröder, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate financial performance; Corporate sustainability performance; Panel data; Probit models; Simulated maximum likelihood estimation; Sustainability stock indexes

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HETEROGENEITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 74549224455     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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