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Corporate Social Responsibility Rating Information: Relevance and Impacts on Financial Markets

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The development of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and more generally the consideration by shareholders of non-financial performance highlights CSR. Investors care increasingly about ethical, social, environ­mental, and corporate governance decisions and performances. According to Eurosif, at the end of 2009, the SRI assets under management in Europe totaled € 5 trillion1 representing 10% of total assets under management in Europe: ESG criteria are today inescapable.

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  1. IRG, Université Paris-Est, France

    Alexis Cellier

  2. IRG, Université Paris-Est, France

    Pierre Chollet

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  1. Champagne School of Management, France

    Sabri Boubaker

  2. ISC Paris School of Management, France

    Duc Khuong Nguyen

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Cellier, A., Chollet, P. (2012). Corporate Social Responsibility Rating Information: Relevance and Impacts on Financial Markets. In: Boubaker, S., Nguyen, D.K. (eds) Board Directors and Corporate Social Responsibility. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389304_10

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