The Influence of Corporate Responsibility on the Cost of Capital

By Alexander Bassen, K. Meyer, Joachim Schlange. 2006

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Sensitive industries produce better ESG performance: Evidence from emerging markets (2017, background): “uncertainty, business risk and, by extension, the cost of capital for the firm (Bassen et al., 2006; Orlitzky and Benjamin, 2001).”
Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Firm Performance in the Financial Services Sector (2014, unknown): “Bassen et al. (2006) report that, on the risk side, CSR commitment tends to lead to lower regulatory risk.”
Corporate Social Responsibility: Is it Rewarded by the Corporate Bond Market? A Critical Note (2010, background): “Since, however, no single definition of CSR exists, neither in existing literature nor in language use, divergent interpretations of the terms are common (Bassen et al., 2006).”
Does corporate social responsibility affect the cost of capital (2011, background): “Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become increasingly important in recent years owing to the dramatic growth in the number of institutes, mutual funds, and online resources and other publications that specialize in encouraging corporations to improve their practices according to various resp”