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Leading or lagging indicators of risk? The informational content of extra-financial performance scores

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  • Roland Gillet

    (PRISM Sorbonne - Pôle de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences du management - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

  • Amos Sodjahin

    (Accounting department - Faculté d'administration de l'Université de Moncton - Université de Moncton, GREFA - Groupe de recherche en finance responsable - UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke = University of Sherbrooke [Sherbrooke])

  • Claudia Champagne

    (UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke = University of Sherbrooke [Sherbrooke], GREFA - Groupe de recherche en finance responsable - UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke = University of Sherbrooke [Sherbrooke])

  • Frank Coggins

    (UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke = University of Sherbrooke [Sherbrooke], GREFA - Groupe de recherche en finance responsable - UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke = University of Sherbrooke [Sherbrooke])

Abstract

This study investigates the informational content of extra-financial agency scoring by examining the relationship between firm beta and extra-financial performance score upgrades and downgrades. Specifically, we study the variations in the extra-financial score of 266 Canadian corporations between 2007 and 2012 with a conditional model. We find no evidence that changes in firm beta precede changes in extra-financial scores. Rather, our results suggest that a firm's systematic risk increases following a downgrade of its extra-financial performance. In terms of score upgrades, the overall effect is not significant. However, score upgrades for firms with already-high scores predict higher systematic risk, while score upgrades for firms with low scores predict lower systematic risk. These results suggest that extra-financial scores are informational and can be useful to portfolio managers, notably for their risk management strategies.

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  • Roland Gillet & Amos Sodjahin & Claudia Champagne & Frank Coggins, 2017. "Leading or lagging indicators of risk? The informational content of extra-financial performance scores," Post-Print hal-03690817, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03690817
    DOI: 10.1057/s41260-016-0039-y
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    1. Champagne, Claudia & Coggins, Frank & Sodjahin, Amos, 2022. "Can extra-financial ratings serve as an indicator of ESG risk?," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    2. Christophe BOUCHER & Wassim LE LANN & Stéphane MATTON & Sessi TOKPAVI, 2021. "Backtesting ESG Ratings," LEO Working Papers / DR LEO 2883, Orleans Economics Laboratory / Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orleans (LEO), University of Orleans.
    3. Christophe Boucher & Wassim Le Lann & Stéphane Matton & Sessi Tokpavi, 2024. "Are ESG ratings informative to forecast idiosyncratic risk?," Working Papers hal-04140193, HAL.

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