Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Reaction: The Environmental Awareness of Investors
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...______________________ * Correspondence to: Caroline Flammer, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, 1255 Western Road, Office 3351, London, ON N6G 0N1, Canada....
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...______________________ * Correspondence to: Caroline Flammer, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, 1255 Western Road, Office 3351, London, ON N6G 0N1, Canada. E-mail: cflammer@ivey.uwo.ca. Tel: +1 (519) 6613144. I thank Wei Jiang (the editor), two anonymous reviewers, the anonymous associate editor, Alex Edmans, Maria Guadalupe, Andrew Hoffman, Aleksandra Kacperczyk, James Naughton, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Brian Richter, as well as seminar participants at the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Conference at UC Berkeley (2013) for helpful comments and suggestions....
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...However, once the lowhanging fruits of CSR have been harvested, it may become increasingly difficult to adopt social policies that further improve the company’s financial performance (for a related argument in the context of green initiatives, see Flammer 2013)....
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...Similarly, Flammer (2013) finds abnormal returns of 0.84% around the announcement of green initiatives....
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...This evolution is consistent with previous evidence documenting an increase in shareholders’ awareness for CSR-related issues over time (see, e.g., Flammer 2013)....
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...However, I show in rows 4 and 5 of Table 3 that I obtain very similar results if, instead of the market model, I use the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993) or the four-factor model of Carhart (1997).8 Industry-adjusted CARs....
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...However, I show in rows 4 and 5 of Table 3 that I obtain very similar results if, instead of the market model, I use the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993) or the four-factor model of Carhart (1997).8 Industry-adjusted CARs....
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