Social responsibility and bank resiliency
Abstract
We find strong evidence that measures of social responsibility contribute to increasing the resilience of banks. This finding holds when social responsibility is measured by aggregated ESG scores provided by Thomson Reuters, both according to their older Asset 4 categorization and to the reformed ESG Refinitiv classification, and resilience is proxied by various measures of systemic and systematic risk. The results hold on the level of subcategories of the ESG pillars, where we find that, particularly, variables related to the long-term perspective enhance resilience. Moreover, in our international study, we find significant transatlantic differences.
Citation
Gehrig , T , Iannino , M C & Unger , S 2024 , ' Social responsibility and bank resiliency ' , Journal of Financial Stability , vol. 70 , 101191 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2023.101191
Publication
Journal of Financial Stability
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1572-3089Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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