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dc.contributor.authorCapelle-Blancard, Gunther
dc.contributor.authorCrifo, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorDiaye, Marc-Arthur
dc.contributor.authorOueghlissi, Rim
dc.contributor.authorScholtens, Bert
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-14T23:34:14Z
dc.date.available2020-05-14T23:34:14Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.identifier256706121
dc.identifier22c0b4bb-fb1e-4a99-bbcc-6060cdeccc85
dc.identifier85056636627
dc.identifier000454465300010
dc.identifier.citationCapelle-Blancard , G , Crifo , P , Diaye , M-A , Oueghlissi , R & Scholtens , B 2019 , ' Sovereign bond yield spreads and sustainability : an empirical analysis of OECD countries ' , Journal of Banking and Finance , vol. 98 , pp. 156-169 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2018.11.011en
dc.identifier.issn0378-4266
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5774-5191/work/69834991
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19946
dc.descriptionPatricia Crifo acknowledges the support of the chair for Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investment (chair FDIR – Toulouse IDEI & Ecole Polytechnique), the chair for Energy and prosperity, finance and evaluation of energy transition, and the Research program Investissements d'Avenir (ANR-11-IDEX-0003/Labex Ecodec/ANR-11- LABX-0047).en
dc.description.abstractWe study whether and how a country's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance relates to its sovereign borrowing costs in international capital markets. We hypothesize that good ESG performance plays an economic role: It signals a country's commitment to sustainability and long-term orientation and is a buffer against negative shocks, leading to lower sovereign bond yield spreads. Using a sample of 20 OECD countries over the period 1996–2012, we show that countries with good ESG performance are associated with lower default risk and lower sovereign bond yield spreads. Moreover, we show that the social and governance dimensions have a significant negative association with sovereign bond yield spreads, whereas the environmental dimension does not.
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dc.format.extent753221
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Banking and Financeen
dc.subjectESG performanceen
dc.subjectSovereign bondsen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectYield spreadsen
dc.subjectHG Financeen
dc.subjectFinanceen
dc.subjectEconomics and Econometricsen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccHGen
dc.titleSovereign bond yield spreads and sustainability : an empirical analysis of OECD countriesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Responsible Banking and Financeen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Managementen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jbankfin.2018.11.011
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2020-05-15


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