“…Several studies examine the relationship between environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) factors (Berlinger et al, 2022;Primecz et al, 2019). Financial institutions also face ecological, societal, and governmental challenges that require rethinking their investment and risk management practices (Gyura, 2020;Mihálovits and Tapaszti, 2018;Walker et al, 2020).…”
We examine the role of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in explaining the crisis resilience of 1031 global emerging market (GEM) equities during the Covid-19 crisis downturn of Q1 2020. We use linear and quantile regressions (QR) and find a statistically significant negative relationship between a firm's ESG management score and crisis resilience as proxied by stock maximal drawdown. Our results suggest that companies with better ESG management were less crisis resilient, a finding consistent with agency-theory-based explanations found in the literature. Results are robust across all OLS and QR models.
“…Several studies examine the relationship between environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) factors (Berlinger et al, 2022;Primecz et al, 2019). Financial institutions also face ecological, societal, and governmental challenges that require rethinking their investment and risk management practices (Gyura, 2020;Mihálovits and Tapaszti, 2018;Walker et al, 2020).…”
We examine the role of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in explaining the crisis resilience of 1031 global emerging market (GEM) equities during the Covid-19 crisis downturn of Q1 2020. We use linear and quantile regressions (QR) and find a statistically significant negative relationship between a firm's ESG management score and crisis resilience as proxied by stock maximal drawdown. Our results suggest that companies with better ESG management were less crisis resilient, a finding consistent with agency-theory-based explanations found in the literature. Results are robust across all OLS and QR models.
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