Graduation Year
2021
Date of Submission
12-2021
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
Professor Yong Kim
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Abstract
In this paper, I perform textual analysis of the Form 10-K of the largest U.S. financial services companies by market capitalization and study the degree to which the relative term frequencies of words associated with different Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) endeavors help explain cumulative abnormal returns. While I find that there is no statistically significant relationship between any of these sub-groups’ term frequencies and cumulative abnormal returns, this research helps identify the sort of ESG disclosure the market does and does not respond to. As such, this paper helps make progress to identify what the much-needed standardized ESG guidelines that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission is striving to implement should look like.
Recommended Citation
Mohan, Aryam and Mohan, Aryam, "Does it Pay to be Moral? A Look into Stock Market Response to ESG Disclosure in the U.S. Financial Services Industry." (2021). CMC Senior Theses. 2807.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2807
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
