Noneconomic goals of investors

Iyer, Easwar S.; Kashyap, Rajiv

doi:10.1002/cb.281

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“…For example, Iyer and Kashyap (2009) report that investors emphasise more than just financial returns on investments, e.g. ''boycott firms deemed to be socially and environmentally responsible'', ''promote environmental causes'' and ''advance social agendas''.…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 98%

The impact of socio-economic factors and incentives on farmers’ investment behaviour

Olsen

Lund

2011

Food Economics - Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section C

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This article investigates how socio-economic factors and incentives affect farmers' investment behaviour. The motivation is a need for a better quantitative knowledge of investment behaviour in order to support farmers' investment decisions through extension services and public investment support schemes. Data from a questionnaire survey among 208 Danish pig producers are analysed by use of logistic regression and the relationships between socio-economic factors, investment incentives and farmers' investment behaviour are empirically revealed. The results show that the farmers who rank economic incentives as the most important when making investments are those who yield the best financial results. Off-farm income and partial productivity were also higher on these farms. As hypothesised, young farmers with a large production are more likely to invest in real assets than others. No cross sectional trends relating the incentives for making investments to the investment propensity were identified. One important policy implication of the results is that improved knowledge of the socio-economic factors and their influence on investment behaviour and incentives may reduce the deadweight loss associated with many governmental investment programmes.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 98%

The impact of socio-economic factors and incentives on farmers’ investment behaviour

Olsen

Lund

2011

Food Economics - Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section C

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“…Traditional investors are extrinsically motivated by the prospect of future financial returns, while charitable donors are intrinsically motivated due to psychological gains. Iyer and Kashyap [25] explored the influence of materialism, social investment efficacy, risk tolerance, environmental attitude, collectivism, and religiosity on non-economic objectives of the investors. They concluded that investors would mix financial gains with their non-economic objectives, and sometimes investors are willing to forgo financial returns to achieve social benefits.…”

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Crowdfunding for renewable and sustainable energy projects: An exploratory case study approach

Lam

Law

2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Global warming has become one of the major challenges faced by the world today. Use of renewable energy can help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and environmental pollution. However, owing to high up-front costs and the risk of commercializing renewable energy initiatives compared with conventional technology, a barrier exists in securing financing of renewable energy projects. This article aims to explore the knowledge of the emerging crowdfunding in general and more specifically, to focus on how best to employ this new funding source for renewable and sustainable energy projects. Firstly, incorporation of literature findings is undertaken from two fields: crowdfunding and renewable energy development. A case study approach is employed to demonstrate how crowdfunding has been applied in renewable projects. Eight international cases were chosen to represent various crowdfunding models that differ in terms of reward and returns associated with the investment. Crowdfunding can play a significant role at the start of a renewable and sustainable energy project's life-cycle. A variety of crowdfunding approaches may be used to finance the early stages of renewable energy development, particularly when stakeholders are the beneficiaries, or the concerned groups related to environmental protection and sustainability. Crowdfunding is also suitable for supporting research and development efforts of innovative green technology start-ups. This article introduces crowdfunding as a new source of green financing and gives evidences for using crowdfunding in renewable and sustainable energy development, in comparison with other funding sources

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“…Rosen et al . (), Lewis & Mackenzie (), McLachlan & Gardner (), Nilsson (), Williams (), Owen & Qian (), Starr (), Iyer & Kashyap (), Säve‐Söderbergh () use surveys; Webley et al . (), Pasewark & Riley () implement experiments; Renneboog et al .…”

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Trends in the literature on socially responsible investment: looking for the keys under the lamppost

2012

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In this paper, we use online search engines and archive collections to examine the popularity of socially responsible investing (SRI) in newspapers and academic journals. A simple content analysis suggests that most of the papers on SRI focus on financial performance. This profusion of research is somewhat puzzling as most of the studies used roughly the same methodology and obtained very similar results. So, why are there so many studies on SRI financial performance? We argue that the academic literature on SRI is mostly data driven: the famous 'looking for the keys under the lamppost' syndrome. The question of the financial performance of the SRI funds is certainly relevant but maybe too much attention has been paid to this issue, whereas more research is needed on a conceptual and theoretical ground, in particular the aspirations of SRI investors, the relationship between regulation and SRI as well as the assessment of extra-financial performances.

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Noneconomic goals of investors

Cited by 35 publications

References 47 publications

The impact of socio-economic factors and incentives on farmers’ investment behaviour

The impact of socio-economic factors and incentives on farmers’ investment behaviour

Crowdfunding for renewable and sustainable energy projects: An exploratory case study approach

Trends in the literature on socially responsible investment: looking for the keys under the lamppost

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