Conference Agenda
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SF 07: Sustainable Investment and Real Effects Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0) Session Chair: Lin Peng, Baruch College | |
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ID: 961
Are Socially Responsible Funds Viable? 1: London School of Economics, United Kingdom; 2: University of Maryland at College Park, USA; 3: HEC Paris We study the viability of socially responsible (SR) funds when investors are small, have social preferences, and can cheaply invest in other ways. In a static setting, SR “impact” funds, which engage with dirty firms at a cost, cannot exist due to free riding, regardless of the type of social preferences. SR exclusion funds with reduced ownership of dirty firms can exist, but only if investors’ social preferences are “warm glow,” i.e., tied to the extent of ownership. In a dynamic setting, we demonstrate that such exclusion funds endogenously make impact funds viable. Impact funds profit by making dirty firms investable for exclusion funds.
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