Are red or blue companies more likely to go green? Politics and corporate social responsibility

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 158-180

  Di Giuli, Alberta ^a   Kostovetsky, Leonard ^b  

^a ESCP EUROPE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; Corporate social responsibility; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888315440     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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