Green and Good? The Investment Performance of US Environmental Mutual Funds

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 275-287

  Climent, Francisco ^a   Soriano, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

corporate social responsibility; ethical investing; mutual funds; performance evaluation; socially responsible investments

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027918791     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0865-2     Document Type: Article

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