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Session
Track M6-1: ESG: Preferences and Policies
Time:
Monday, 20/May/2024:
8:30am - 9:15am

Session Chair: Lorenzo Garlappi, UBC
Discussant: Jules Van Binsbergen, Wharton
Location: Room 1203


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Responsible Consumption, Demand Elasticity, and the Green Premium

Xuhui Chen, Lorenzo Garlappi, Ali Lazrak

UBC

We study equilibrium asset prices in a model where investors favor ``green'' over ``brown'' goods. We show that demand elasticity of goods crucially affects \emph{assets}' riskiness. When demand elasticity is high, brown assets are safer than green, because they hedge against consumption risk. The opposite holds when goods' demand elasticity is low. Our model therefore predicts that the ``green minus brown'' stock return spread (green premium) varies in the cross section and increases in the price elasticity of demand. We test this novel prediction on US stocks and find that over the 2012--2022 period the annual green premium is 11.7\% for firms with high demand elasticity, while it is much smaller and insignificant for firms with low demand elasticity. The high green premium for high-demand elasticity firms is robust to standard risk adjustments and to alternative measures of demand elasticity; it cannot be explained by unanticipated shocks to investors' environmental concerns, and remains strong after using option-implied measures of expected returns. These findings underscore the critical role of goods' demand elasticity for understanding the impact of responsible consumption on asset prices.


Chen-Responsible Consumption, Demand Elasticity, and the Green Premium-745.pdf


 
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