Investor Attitudes, Investment Screen Use, and Socially Responsible Investment Behavior

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2013-05-04
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Dilla, William
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Janvrin, Diane
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The Department of Accounting was founded in 1984 in the College of Business Administration (later College of Business).

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The Department of Accounting seeks to provide a mastery of basic accounting concepts and encouraging critical and creative thinking about accounting problems. It is intended both for internal users (management) and external users (investors, creditors, government officials, the general public).

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1984–present

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There is an increasing demand for socially responsible investment (SRI), and SRI screens are an important source of information for investors. Yet, little is known about the relationship between investors’ attitudes, use of SRI screens, and actual SRI behavior. To examine this relationship, we gathered data on investors’ environmental attitudes, use of SRI screens, and SRI behavior. We find that four out of five components of the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale, a measure of basic environmental attitudes, are associated with specific attitudes towards environmentally responsible investment. These specific attitudes in turn are positively associated with SRI screen use, and SRI screen use is positively associated with the percentage of investors’ portfolio held in SRIs. There is also a significant direct relationship between specific environmentally responsible investment attitudes and SRI holdings. Our results suggest that there are complex, multi-dimensional relationships between investor attitudes, SRI screen use, and investment behavior.

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Dilla, William N. and Janvrin, Diane Joyce and Perkins, Jon D. and Raschke, Robyn, Investor Attitudes, Investment Screen Use, and Socially Responsible Investment Behavior (May 2, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2260051 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2260051

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