Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171489 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 05/45
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research, Zurich
Abstract: 
In recent years Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) has received considerable attention from both private investors as well as pension funds. Despite this proliferation in interest, several topics are still unresolved, namely selection methods, performance and effects regarding sustainability. This paper examines how green investors can induce firms to invest in cleaner production technology by using exclusionary investment screens. SRI is more likely to be successful when abatement costs are low and if principle guided investors are numerous and have homogenous investment principles. The transformation process becomes more probable when shares of clean firms are viewed as a separate asset class by all investors. Green investors have to accept lower returns from shares of clean firms, even in the case of positive externalities.
Subjects: 
Socially Responsible Investment
Pension Funds
JEL: 
G10
Q5
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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