Authors:

  • George Serafeim
  • Mozaffar Khan

Excerpt

Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality. Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim, March 24, 2015, Paper. "An increasing number of companies make sustainability investments, and an increasing number of investors integrate sustainability performance data in their capital allocation decisions. To date however, the prior academic literature has not distinguished between investments in material versus immaterial sustainability issues. We develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping data on sustainability investments classified as material for each industry into firm-specific performance data on a variety of sustainability investments..." Link