Dose company green score affect stock price
Do investors reward green companies by paying a higher than the equilibrium price indicated by the capital-asset pricing models or do they penalize green companies by paying a less than the equilibrium price because going green and keeping green is costly and reduces company profits
In the study we seek an answer to there questions by using the green scores published by Newsweek magazine for the S&P 500 companies in 2012 we use the parameters of the fame-french three-factor capital-assetpricing model as control variables in multivariate linear regressions to assess the impact of company
green score on stock price. we use the event-study methodology to test our hypothesis with one-week four-week and ten-week event windows after the publication of the company green scores by Newsweek.
Our findings indicate that a company is green score is not priced by the market and that the variation between companies