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Socially responsible investing: from the ethical origins to the sustainable development framework of the european union

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  • Alice Martini

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche – Università di Pisa)

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In this work we present an overview of the historical development of Socially Responsible Investing, a financial activity that has been boosting in recent decades from a niche, mainly religious-led exclusionary practice, towards a mainstream strategy of risk analysis for institutional and retail investors. We will also discuss the advances that regulatory activity and harmonization process on such industry have achieved at international level in recent years, with a special focus on the European Union.

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  • Alice Martini, 2019. "Socially responsible investing: from the ethical origins to the sustainable development framework of the european union," Public Finance Research Papers 36, Istituto di Economia e Finanza, DSGE, Sapienza University of Rome.
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