Climate reputation risk and abnormal returns in the stock markets: A focus on large emitters

Giovanni Guastella, Matteo Mazzarano*, Stefano Pareglio, Anastasios Xepapadeas

*Autore corrispondente per questo lavoro

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivista

Abstract

Reputation risk is among the possible climate transition risks companies face, especially in emission-intensive industries. Failing to meet stakeholders' expectations about the contribution to climate goals might influence investors' strategies and produce financial damages. We look at the climate-related social media talk in a sample of highly polluting companies. For these companies, reputation risk materialises if their climate talk is perceived as not coherent with their action-taking. We then assess the impact of climate talk on short-term stock market performance, as measured by abnormal returns, and find a positive association between climate-related social media talks and abnormal returns. The strength of this association lowers during peak days of social media attention on climate-related topics.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)N/A-N/A
RivistaInternational Review of Financial Analysis
Volume84
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2022

Keywords

  • Efficient markets
  • Events analysis
  • Reputation risk
  • Text analysis
  • Transition risk

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