Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock market

Abstract The paper investigates the impact of corporate sustainability on asset prices. For that purpose, we develop a novel corporate sustainability factor and test the extent to which this factor is priced in an augmented four-factor version of the traditional Fama & French (1993) asset pricin...

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Main Authors: Vitor Gonçalves de Azevedo, André Alves Portela Santos, Lucila Maria de Souza Campos
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Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção (ABEPRO) 2016-01-01
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-65132016005005101&lng=en&tlng=en
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André Alves Portela Santos
Lucila Maria de Souza Campos
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description Abstract The paper investigates the impact of corporate sustainability on asset prices. For that purpose, we develop a novel corporate sustainability factor and test the extent to which this factor is priced in an augmented four-factor version of the traditional Fama & French (1993) asset pricing model. The corporate sustainability factor is based on a zero-investment portfolio which is long in stocks with high sustainability and short in stocks with low sustainability. We use data on the Brazilian stock market to estimate alternative model specifications with different combinations of four explanatory variables: the corporate sustainability premium, the market risk factor premium, the size factor premium and the book-to-market factor premium. Our results indicate that corporate sustainability is priced and helps to explain the variability in the cross-section of expected stock returns.
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spelling doaj-art-91c2b89e7833412ea963456ed1d1adf02025-08-20T03:19:52ZengAssociação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção (ABEPRO)Production1980-54112016-01-01010.1590/0103-6513.201115S0103-65132016005005101Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock marketVitor Gonçalves de AzevedoAndré Alves Portela SantosLucila Maria de Souza CamposAbstract The paper investigates the impact of corporate sustainability on asset prices. For that purpose, we develop a novel corporate sustainability factor and test the extent to which this factor is priced in an augmented four-factor version of the traditional Fama & French (1993) asset pricing model. The corporate sustainability factor is based on a zero-investment portfolio which is long in stocks with high sustainability and short in stocks with low sustainability. We use data on the Brazilian stock market to estimate alternative model specifications with different combinations of four explanatory variables: the corporate sustainability premium, the market risk factor premium, the size factor premium and the book-to-market factor premium. Our results indicate that corporate sustainability is priced and helps to explain the variability in the cross-section of expected stock returns.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-65132016005005101&lng=en&tlng=enCorporate sustainabilityISEFama-French Three-factor modelCAPMAnomalies
spellingShingle Vitor Gonçalves de Azevedo
André Alves Portela Santos
Lucila Maria de Souza Campos
Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock market
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Corporate sustainability
ISE
Fama-French Three-factor model
CAPM
Anomalies
title Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock market
title_full Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock market
title_fullStr Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock market
title_full_unstemmed Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock market
title_short Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock market
title_sort corporate sustainability and asset pricing models empirical evidence for the brazilian stock market
topic Corporate sustainability
ISE
Fama-French Three-factor model
CAPM
Anomalies
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-65132016005005101&lng=en&tlng=en
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