Is it Beneficial to be Included in a Sustainability Stock Index? A Panel Data Study for European Firms

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-325

  Ziegler, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate environmental and social activities; Corporate financial performance; Panel data; Sustainability stock index; Unobserved firm heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; FIRM HETEROGENEITY; PANEL DATA; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; STOCK INDICES;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; SUSTAINABILITY;

IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84862861796     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9529-z     Document Type: Article

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