The drivers of the relationship between corporate environmental performance and stock market returns

Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 338-375

  de Haan, Marien ^a   Dam, Lammertjan ^a   Scholtens, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

corporate environmental performance; multifactor model; ranking; risk; stock performance; sustainability; taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989798830     PISSN: 20430795     EISSN: 20430809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2012.738601     Document Type: Article

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