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Can Investing in Corporate Social Responsibility Lower a Company’s Cost of Capital? 投资于企业社会责任能降低公司的资金成本吗?
Pub Date : 2012-10-04 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2157184
Marcelo Cajias, F. Fuerst, S. Bienert
Purpose - – This paper aims to investigate the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on the Design/methodology/approach - – The measure of the cost of capital reflects the perceived riskiness of individual companies expressed in the unobserved internal rate of return that investors expect to hold a risky asset. Based on descriptive portfolio estimations, panel and quantile regressions, the authors model the cost of equity capital as a function of CSR strengths and concerns obtained from the KLD-database and accounting controls. Findings - – The authors show that firms' CSR strategies differ significantly across industry sectors. Customer-orientated companies such as telecommunications and automobile outperform asset-driven sectors such as real estate or chemical companies. Furthermore, the authors find a 10-bp positive effect for one standard deviation of firms' intensive allocation of resources in sustainable activities. Research limitations/implications - – Since the authors are interested in the effect environmental, social and governance activities have on the firm's perceived market valuation rate, the authors apply the Fama-French model because of its efficiency in explaining realized returns, rather than incorporating analyst's long-term growth forecasts into the proxy for the equity premium. Practical implications - – Managers of companies with low or intermediate CSR scores may consider the financial benefits of improving their social and environmental performance. A good starting point is usually to draw up a company-wide CSR agenda, possibly guided by a dedicated CSR task force, mapping out the potential costs and benefits of such measures. In addition, by improving their CSR ratings, a company may get access to additional resources, ranging from the growing ethical investment industry to employees for whom CSR performance matters when choosing an employer. Originality/value - – The authors expand the existing literature by considering firm's CSR level to be in relation to the overall CSR performance and decompose firm's CSR agenda into strengths and concerns rather than counting the number of activities a firm is involved in. The applied methodology allows a better understanding of firm's CSR agenda and its implication for capital markets and investors on both long and short investment terms.
目的——本文旨在研究企业社会责任(CSR)评级对设计/方法/方法的影响——资本成本的衡量反映了个体公司的感知风险,这种感知风险表现为投资者期望持有风险资产的未观察到的内部收益率。基于描述性投资组合估计,面板和分位数回归,作者将权益资本成本建模为从kld数据库和会计控制中获得的企业社会责任优势和关注点的函数。研究发现——作者表明,企业的企业社会责任战略在不同行业之间存在显著差异。电信和汽车等以客户为导向的公司的表现优于房地产或化工等资产驱动型行业。此外,作者发现,企业在可持续活动中的资源集约化配置在一个标准差内具有10-bp的正效应。研究局限/启示——由于作者对环境、社会和治理活动对公司感知市场估值率的影响感兴趣,因此作者采用Fama-French模型,因为它在解释实现回报方面效率高,而不是将分析师的长期增长预测纳入股票溢价的代理。实际意义——企业社会责任得分较低或中等的公司的管理者可能会考虑改善其社会和环境绩效的财务效益。一个好的起点通常是起草一份全公司范围的企业社会责任议程,可能由专门的企业社会责任工作组指导,绘制出这些措施的潜在成本和收益。此外,通过提高企业社会责任评级,企业可以获得额外的资源,从日益增长的道德投资行业到在选择雇主时看重企业社会责任表现的员工。原创性/价值——作者通过考虑企业的社会责任水平与整体社会责任绩效的关系来扩展现有文献,并将企业的社会责任议程分解为优势和关注点,而不是计算企业参与的活动数量。应用的方法可以更好地理解公司的企业社会责任议程及其对资本市场和投资者的长期和短期投资期限的影响。
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引用次数: 31
Sustainable Finance - A Conceptual Outline 可持续金融-概念概要
Pub Date : 2012-09-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2147590
Henry Schaefer
The concept of sustainable development affects every part of economic life. The pro-vision of liquidity and capital should contribute to a habitable ecological and social environment. This paper surveys the role of finance in the concept of sustainability. It starts with a discussion of finance and ethics, as sustainability, in principle, is an ethical concept. In the following sections, the focus is on socially responsible investments (SRIs) as the most prominent representatives of sustainable finance. Various techniques to construct such investment products and their different types are explained. We demonstrate the labor division between and the tasks of the different agents in the network of SRI. Special reference is made to empirical results concerning the performance of an asset allocation process restricted by sustainability criteria. As SRI intends to promote a firm’s contributions to social, environmental and governance issues, the question that is discussed is if and how investors can enforce such a real impact. Sustainable finance goes beyond financial investment contracts. With socially responsible property investments, research on an asset class is presented, which represents real investments with sustainability criteria. Sustainable finance with a strong focus on very direct impacts on the borrower side and partial links to philanthropy is discussed by introducing microfinance. The paper ends with a look at the valuation of a firm conducted under ecological and social criteria and with a brief discussion on carbon finance.
可持续发展的理念影响着经济生活的方方面面。流动性和资本的提供应有助于营造适宜的生态环境和社会环境。本文考察了金融在可持续发展概念中的作用。它从金融和道德的讨论开始,因为原则上,可持续性是一个道德概念。在接下来的章节中,重点是社会责任投资(SRIs)作为可持续金融的最突出代表。解释了构建此类投资产品的各种技术及其不同类型。我们展示了SRI网络中不同主体之间的分工和任务。特别参考了关于受可持续性标准限制的资产配置过程绩效的实证结果。由于SRI旨在促进公司对社会,环境和治理问题的贡献,因此讨论的问题是投资者是否以及如何执行这种实际影响。可持续金融超越了金融投资合同。随着社会责任房地产投资,对资产类别的研究被提出,这代表了具有可持续性标准的实际投资。通过引入小额信贷,讨论了可持续金融对借款人的直接影响以及与慈善事业的部分联系。本文最后考察了在生态和社会标准下进行的公司估值,并对碳融资进行了简要讨论。
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引用次数: 3
Sustainable Practice and Business Profitability in Brazil 巴西的可持续实践和商业盈利能力
Pub Date : 2012-09-14 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2146958
L. J. Perera, R. Gonçalves, Maria Thereza Pompa Antunes, J. O. Imoniana
Expenditures relating to sustainability practices are still institutional options and they occur based on demands of shareholders, with the reflection of social expectations. Porter and Kramer (2006) claim that investments in social value creation should be viewed as long-term strategy of the company, not influencing their immediate financial results. The aim of this study was to identify, through analysis of selected economic and financial indicators, if significant variations of these indicators as a result of the certification of companies by the Corporate Sustainability Index (SRI), used as a proxy for sustainable practices. The methodology used was the study of event with accounting data. Data from three separate chronological series: before preparing for certification (implementation), pre-certification and post certification series. Data were obtained from the Economatica database and of CVM and the study followed the Quarterly Information (ITR's) of business for a period of five years. The main results indicate that the analyzed indices (ROA, ROE, ROS e EBTIDA) fit in the pre-certification and do not reveal significant changes in the period up to two years post-certification – thereby validating the assertion of Porter and Kramer (2006).
与可持续性做法有关的支出仍然是体制选择,它们是根据股东的要求而产生的,反映了社会期望。波特和克莱默(2006)声称,社会价值创造的投资应被视为公司的长期战略,不影响他们的直接财务结果。本研究的目的是通过对选定的经济和金融指标的分析,确定这些指标是否因公司获得企业可持续发展指数(SRI)的认证而发生重大变化,该指数被用作可持续实践的代理。使用的方法是用会计数据对事件进行研究。数据按时间顺序分为三个系列:准备核证前(执行)、核证前和核证后系列。数据来自Economatica数据库和CVM,该研究跟踪了五年的季度信息(ITR)。主要结果表明,所分析的指标(ROA、ROE、ROS和EBTIDA)符合认证前,并没有显示认证后两年的显著变化,从而验证了Porter和Kramer(2006)的断言。
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引用次数: 5
Reconciling IMF Rules and International Investment Agreements: An Innovative Derogation for Capital Controls 协调国际货币基金组织规则和国际投资协定:资本管制的创新减损
Pub Date : 2012-09-10 DOI: 10.7916/D82Z1DRH
Elizabeth Broomfield
In the absence of an international framework governing capital controls, a conflict has developed due to the different approaches towards such controls taken by various international organizations and international investment agreements (IIAs). This Perspective argues that IIAs should incorporate derogations for countries when treaty obligations conflict with IMF recommendations to impose controls in response to severe economic hardship.
在缺乏管理资本管制的国际框架的情况下,由于各种国际组织和国际投资协定(IIAs)对这种管制采取的不同方法,冲突已经发展起来。本展望认为,当条约义务与货币基金组织为应对严重经济困难而提出的实施管制的建议相冲突时,国际投资协定应纳入对国家的克减。
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引用次数: 9
Global Adversarial Legalism: Global Private Governance of FDI as a Species of Global Administrative Law 全球对抗法家主义:外商直接投资的全球私人治理作为全球行政法的一种
Pub Date : 2012-08-21 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2133197
Ariel Meyerstein
This paper argues that the fractured nature of the governance of foreign direct investment ('FDI') has given rise to a two-faceted 'global adversarial legalism.' One facet of this global adversarial legalism, already much debated, is the concern that investment arbitration tribunals exercise an overly broad and perhaps illegitimate form of 'global administrative review' of State measures. This paper focuses on the other side of this global adversarial legalism that has not received sufficient scholarly attention: the advent of FDI-impacted individuals and communities alleging violations of voluntary transnational norms espoused by corporate actors involved in regimes of global private regulation. The primary example of this more recent phenomenon is the emergence of the Equator Principles, a regime of private global governance created by investment banks. The EPs standardize the banks’ environmental and social risk management of their investments in large infrastructure projects developed in host states whose weak regulatory capacities fail to prevent or mitigate project impacts. Just as arbitral clauses in public contracts can internationalize a dispute for resolution by a transnational arbitral tribunal, the EPs’ application to a project loan expands the substantive criteria applicable to project review and creates additional layers of review of corporate compliance with national and international norms. This interaction also creates a complicated dynamic with regard to State sovereignty and decision making related to national development agendas. By creating a global standard, the private regime empowers civil society actors and others not party to the underlying contracts to intervene in national debates and inter-governmental branch dialogue concerning project review and approval, thereby instantiating a quasi-administrative review that has powerful effects in the court of public opinion, even though - unlike traditional treaty-based transnational legal processes - the States have not themselves consented either to the substantive norms nor to the ‘jurisdiction’ of these processes. The paper also addresses the challenging normative implications of such adversarial legalism: how the protection of marginalized communities and ecosystems can impose broader societal transaction costs on national economic development.
本文认为,外国直接投资(FDI)治理的断裂性质导致了两方面的“全球对抗性法律主义”。这种全球对抗性法律主义的一个方面已经引起了广泛的争论,即投资仲裁法庭对国家措施行使过于广泛甚至可能是非法的“全球行政审查”形式。本文关注的是这种全球对抗性法律主义尚未得到足够学术关注的另一面:受外国直接投资影响的个人和社区的出现,指控违反了参与全球私人监管制度的企业行为者所支持的自愿跨国规范。最近出现的这种现象的主要例子是赤道原则的出现,这是一种由投资银行创建的私人全球治理制度。在监管能力薄弱、无法预防或减轻项目影响的东道国,投资银行在投资大型基础设施项目时的环境和社会风险管理可通过EPs进行标准化。正如公共合同中的仲裁条款可以使争端国际化,以便由跨国仲裁法庭解决一样,EPs对项目贷款的适用扩大了适用于项目审查的实质性标准,并为企业遵守国家和国际规范创造了额外的审查层次。这种相互作用还在国家主权和与国家发展议程有关的决策方面造成了复杂的动态。通过建立一种全球标准,私人制度使民间社会行为者和其他非基础合同当事方能够干预有关项目审查和核准的国家辩论和政府间部门对话,从而体现了在舆论法庭上具有强大影响的准行政审查。尽管与传统的以条约为基础的跨国法律程序不同,各国本身既没有同意这些程序的实质性规范,也没有同意这些程序的“管辖权”。本文还讨论了这种对抗性法律主义具有挑战性的规范含义:边缘化社区和生态系统的保护如何对国家经济发展施加更广泛的社会交易成本。
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引用次数: 0
Are Social Investors Influential? 社会投资者有影响力吗?
Pub Date : 2012-04-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2083483
B. Richardson
This article examines socially responsible investment (SRI) and its means of influence and argues that they presently do not enable SRI to greatly influence the social and environmental behaviour of the market.
本文考察了社会责任投资(SRI)及其影响手段,并认为它们目前不能使SRI对市场的社会和环境行为产生重大影响。
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引用次数: 8
What Aspects of CSR Really Matter: An Exploratory Study Using Workplace Mortality Data 企业社会责任的哪些方面真正重要:使用工作场所死亡率数据的探索性研究
Pub Date : 2011-10-10 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1942014
A. Sulkowski, Jonathan Barboza, Jacob Vaillancourt, Aneta Studnicka
This work contributes to a growing and important body of research that tests whether there is any relationship between reporting positive corporate social responsibility metrics and their return-on-investment for stockholders. Following a review of key literature, this article will test the following hypothesis: whether a portfolio of stocks of companies that produce CSR reports that reveal the lowest on-the-job mortality rates produce better returns for investors than a portfolio of stocks of companies that produce CSR reports that reveal highest on-the-job mortality rates. Indeed, stocks of companies with lowest rates of workplace mortality on average increased in value more than the stocks of companies with the highest rates of workplace mortality, especially in a shorter observation period. However, somewhat disturbing, counterintuitive and thought-provoking, the difference in stock performance is found to not be statistically strong over a longer observation period. In the discussion section, the authors consider whether some CSR metrics are too granular to impact stock performance, whether the impacts of changes in some metrics become evident over a longer observation period, or whether outside factors affected the results. The study concludes by pointing to several new directions for promising research.
这项工作为越来越多的重要研究做出了贡献,这些研究旨在检验报告积极的企业社会责任指标与股东投资回报率之间是否存在任何关系。在对关键文献进行回顾之后,本文将检验以下假设:与那些发布企业社会责任报告、显示最低在职死亡率的公司的股票投资组合相比,那些发布企业社会责任报告、显示最高在职死亡率的公司的股票投资组合是否能为投资者带来更好的回报。事实上,工作场所死亡率最低的公司股票的平均增值幅度高于工作场所死亡率最高的公司股票,特别是在较短的观察期内。然而,有些令人不安、违反直觉和发人深省的是,在更长的观察期内,股票表现的差异在统计上并不强。在讨论部分,作者考虑了一些企业社会责任指标是否过于细化而无法影响股票表现,某些指标变化的影响是否在更长的观察期内变得明显,或者外部因素是否影响了结果。该研究最后指出了几个有前途的研究方向。
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The State of Sustainable Investment in Key Emerging Markets 主要新兴市场的可持续投资状况
Pub Date : 2011-05-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1989869
Melsa Ararat, Esra Suel
Since 2009 International Finance Corporation (IFC) has produced a series of sustainable investment country reports covering major emerging capital markets attracting global portfolio investors: Brazil, India, China, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Turkey. This report provides a snapshot of the findings of these country reports and seeks to identify common themes and trends across and highlight crucial differences among these markets. To support the growth of sustainable capital flows, IFC Advisory Services team seeks to influence, support, and enable capital allocation and portfolio management processes, using IFC's own investment practices as a model. IFC is playing its part in supporting the growth of the market by funding the development of enhanced stock market indices and financial instruments and through targeted market research. While this report seeks to capture the findings from the individual reports it does not reflect specific input from the authors themselves. Equally the synthesis and analysis reflects the thoughts of the author of this report not of the individual country reports. The report also consider the supply of financial capital in various classes and forms to listed and privately held firms with a consideration of the investment's impact on economic and social development or on investors' values.
自2009年以来,国际金融公司(IFC)编制了一系列可持续投资国家报告,涵盖了吸引全球证券投资者的主要新兴资本市场:巴西、印度、中国、撒哈拉以南非洲、中东和北非(MENA)以及土耳其。本报告简要介绍了这些国别报告的调查结果,力求确定这些市场的共同主题和趋势,并强调这些市场之间的重大差异。为了支持可持续资本流动的增长,国际金融公司咨询服务团队力求以国际金融公司自身的投资实践为模式,影响、支持并推动资本配置和投资组合管理流程。国际金融公司在支持市场增长方面发挥着自己的作用,为改进股票市场指数和金融工具的开发提供资金,并进行有针对性的市场研究。虽然本报告试图从个别报告中获取调查结果,但并不反映作者本人的具体投入。同样,综合和分析反映了本报告作者的想法,而不是个别国家报告的想法。该报告还考虑了向上市公司和私营公司提供各种类别和形式的金融资本,并考虑了投资对经济和社会发展或投资者价值观的影响。
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引用次数: 7
The Farmers Home Administration's Social Discount Rate 农民家庭管理局的社会贴现率
Pub Date : 1989-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/758520664
R. Brent
The aim was to estimate the SDR revealed by past decisions by the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) concerning their farm-ownership programme in New York State. These decisions involved trading off a current loan against a long stream of future farm profits. The ratio of the coefficients to these two variables in a logit equation produced the estimate of the SDR. The main finding was that a very high rate of discount was uncovered, in the range 70–73%. These high rates may be explained by ‘individual risk’ and the life-cycle context in which the estimates were made.
其目的是估计农民家庭管理局(FmHA)过去关于其纽约州农场所有权方案的决定所揭示的特别报告员。这些决定涉及到用当前的贷款换取长期的未来农场利润。在一个logit方程中,系数与这两个变量的比值产生了SDR的估计。主要的发现是发现了一个非常高的折扣率,在70-73%之间。这些高比率可以用“个人风险”和生命周期背景来解释。
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