Institutional shareholders and corporate social responsibility

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate whether third-party assessments of firms' Environmental, Social, and Governance risk exposures provide forward-looking information content to capital market participants by evaluating whether these ESG risks have a moderating effect on the ability of earnings and the book values of equity to predict investors' expectations of the present value of future cash flows.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the influence of peers' corporate social responsibility (CSR) on focal firms' CSR from an integrated perspective, and they found that corporate visibility would stress more value on CSR differentiation strategy and environmental uncertainty would stress a higher value on the CSR conformity strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test and confirm the hypothesis that individual investors are net buyers of attentiongrabbing stocks, e.g., stocks in the news, stocks experiencing high abnormal trading volume, and stocks with extreme one day returns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and tested a conceptual framework, which predicts that customer satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between CSR and firm market value (i.e., Tobin's q and stock return), and corporate abilities (innovativeness capability and product quality) moderate the financial returns to CSR, and these moderated relationships are mediated by customer satisfaction.

TL;DR: This paper found that firms with high social capital, measured as corporate social responsibility (CSR) intensity, had stock returns that were four to seven percentage points higher than firms with low social capital during the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the agency conflict between mutual fund investors and mutual fund companies and found that the shape of the flow-performance relationship creates incentives for fund managers to increase or decrease the riskiness of the fund which are dependent on the fund's year-to-date return.