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Do Investors Care About Biodiversity?

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  • Alexandre Garel

    (Audencia Business School)

  • Arthur Romec

    (Toulouse Business School)

  • Zacharias Sautner

    (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI))

  • Alexander F. Wagner

    (University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Swiss Finance Institute)

Abstract

This paper introduces a new proprietary measure of a firm's negative impact on biodiversity, the corporate biodiversity footprint, and studies whether it is priced in the cross-section of stock returns. Using an international sample of firms, we find no evidence that the biodiversity footprint explains these returns, on average. However, event-study evidence shows that, following the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), which raised awareness of biodiversity issues, however, firms with larger corporate biodiversity footprints lost value. This response is consistent with investors revising their valuation of these firms downward upon the prospect that regulations to preserve biodiversity will become more stringent.

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  • Alexandre Garel & Arthur Romec & Zacharias Sautner & Alexander F. Wagner, 2023. "Do Investors Care About Biodiversity?," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series 23-24, Swiss Finance Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:chf:rpseri:rp2324
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    Cited by:

    1. von Zedlitz, Gerrit, 2023. "Mind the gap?! The current state of biodiversity reporting," SAFE White Paper Series 95, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
    2. Tobias Schimanski & Chiara Colesanti Senni & Glen Gostlow & Jingwei Ni & Tingyu Yu & Markus Leippold, 2023. "Exploring Nature: Datasets and Models for Analyzing Nature-Related Disclosures," Papers 2312.17337, arXiv.org.

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    Keywords

    Biodiversity; Corporate Biodiversity Footprint; Stock returns;
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    JEL classification:

    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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