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Do Stock Markets Penalise Environment-Unfriendly Behaviour? Evidence from India

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  • Shreekant Gupta

    (Delhi School of Economics)

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A growing body of research points to the fact that capital markets react to environmental news and thus create incentives for pollution control in both developed and emerging market economies. In this paper we conduct an event study to examine the impact of environmental rating of large pulp and paper, auto and chlor alkali firms on their stock prices. We find that the market generally penalizes environmentally un-friendly behaviour in that announcement of weak environmental performance by firms leads to negative abnormal returns of up to 43 percent. A positive correlation is found between abnormal returns to a firm's stock and the level of its environmental performance. These findings should be viewed as further evidence of the important role that capital markets could play in environmental management, particularly in developing countries where environmental monitoring and enforcement are weak.

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  • Shreekant Gupta, 2003. "Do Stock Markets Penalise Environment-Unfriendly Behaviour? Evidence from India," Working papers 116, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
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    Keywords

    green rating; capital market; environmental management; event study;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • L73 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction - - - Forest Products

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