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ArticleHumanities & social sciences communications2022

ESG performance and stock prices: evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

Zengfu Li, Liuhua Feng, Zheng Pan, Hafiz M Sohail

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Zengfu LiSchool of Economics & Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong China.
Liuhua FengSchool of Economics & Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong China.
Zheng PanCollege of Management, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, Guangdong China.
Hafiz M SohailSchool of Economics & Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong China.ORCID 0000-0002-7885-5549

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Abstract

This paper investigates the role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance in stock prices during the market financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We use the Chinese listed company data as the bases for adopting an event-study method to identify the impact of ESG performance on cumulative abnormal returns. Empirical results suggest that ESG performance significantly increases firms' cumulative abnormal returns and has asymmetric effects during the pandemic. Our results are robust to various robustness checks that consider the replacement of event window period, ESG measurement, adding other control variables, and sample exclusion of Hubei Province. We further find that reputation and insurance effects are important mechanisms through which ESG performance influences stock prices. Lastly, heterogeneous analyses show that ESG effects are considerably pronounced among firms with low human capital and bad image and in high-impact regions.

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