Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309629 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Journal of Management and Economics [ISSN:] 2543-5361 [Volume:] 53 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 25-46
Publisher: 
De Gruyter Open, Warsaw
Abstract: 
This article analyzes rate-of-return and risk related to investments in socially responsible and conventional country indices. The socially responsible indices are the DJSI Korea, DJSI US and Respect Index, and the corresponding conventional country indices are the Korea Stock Exchange Composite KOSPI, Dow Jones Industrial Average and WIG20TR. We conclude that investing in the analyzed SRI indices do not yield systematically better results than investing in the respective conventional indices, both in terms of neoclassical risk and return rate. This finding suggest that socially responsible investing should be assessed in terms of behavioral economics related to the psycho-social features of investors, rather than to simplified rational choices (based only on the risk and return rate analysis) that neoclassical economics assumes.
Subjects: 
socially responsible investments (SRI)
socially responsible indices
investment performance
JEL: 
G02
G11
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Document Type: 
Article

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