“…This allows us to identify one of the drivers of the observed changes in prices for climate-responsible firms. A number of recent studies highlight the role of institutional investor horizon and tastes on ESG investing decisions (Dyck, Lins, Roth, and Wagner, 2019, Fernando, Sharfman, and Uysal, 2017, Gibson and Krueger, 2017, Hwang, Titman, and Wang, 2017, Krueger, Sautner, and Starks, 2019, and Starks, Venkat, and Zhu, 2017. Our results show that long-term institutional investors are more likely to benefit from climate-responsible firms' ability to better cope with the tightening in regulation that will likely follow the Trump era.…”