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Ownership Of Esg Characteristics, Mark E. Bateman, Lisa R. Goldberg
Ownership Of Esg Characteristics, Mark E. Bateman, Lisa R. Goldberg
School of Public Service Faculty Publications
A portfolio can be viewed as the collection of the businesses, policies and practices of constituent companies. We measure investors' Ownership of this collection. Ownership metrics aggregate an assortment of company specific Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) characteristics to the portfolio level, and they can inform investment and engagement decisions. Relative to a benchmark, investor Ownership is active and satisfies a zero-sum property, which underscores the distinction between Ownership and impact. Ownership of ESG characteristics may be interpreted as ascribing ethical responsibility, but that conclusion and any decisions that result from it belong to the investor.
Identity, John B. Davis
Identity, John B. Davis
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
The concept of identity has begun to be employed only relatively recently in economics, and accordingly still lacks a standard meaning and established set of applications in the subject. However, in its most influential initial uses by Amartya Sen (1999) and George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton (2000) it has been developed largely in terms of the concept of social identity (though in quite different ways). Social identity as understood in social psychology (see Brown, 2000), where the concept was influentially developed by Erik Erikson in connection with his idea of an identity crisis (Erikson, 1950), concerns individuals’ ‘identification with’ social …
Introduction To The Elgar Companion To Economics And Philosophy, John B. Davis, Alain Marciano, Jochen Runde
Introduction To The Elgar Companion To Economics And Philosophy, John B. Davis, Alain Marciano, Jochen Runde
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
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