Lobe, Sebastian and Walkshaeusl, Christian (2016) Vice versus virtue investing around the world. REVIEW OF MANAGERIAL SCIENCE, 10 (2). pp. 303-344. ISSN 1863-6683, 1863-6691
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This paper assumes the role of advocatus diaboli by testing whether an investment in sin stocks can financially outperform an investment in socially responsible stocks. We create a set of global, regional, and domestic portfolios consisting of a large number of stocks belonging to what could be labeled as a sextet of sin: adult entertainment, alcohol, gambling, nuclear power, tobacco, and weapons. We assess the performance of sin stocks against well-known benchmarks, and rerun the identical assessment for socially responsible stocks. We find no compelling evidence that sin stocks, or socially responsible stocks outperform or underperform, and establish this result in several ways. Consistent with this finding, a hedge portfolio long in sin stocks and short in socially responsible stocks does not outperform the market, either. However, sin stocks are substantially tilted towards value, bear less market risk with an average beta below one, and are prone to momentum relative to socially responsible stocks.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCE; STOCK RETURNS; MARKET EQUILIBRIUM; CROSS-SECTION; ASSET PRICES; RISK; PERSISTENCE; PORTFOLIOS; EFFICIENCY; SELECTION; Sin investments; Socially responsible investments; Performance evaluation; Performance attribution |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Divisions: | Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Lehrstuhl für Finanzdienstleistungen (Prof. Dr. Klaus Röder) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2019 14:09 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2019 14:09 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/2359 |
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