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Legal Origins and Institutional Investors’ Support for Corporate Social Responsibility
Rob Bauer, Jeroen Derwall, and Colin Tissen JRC Summer School
Contact: [email protected]
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2Wall Street Journal (2019) ; The Guardian (2019)
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Contributions
1) We show that institutional investors from civil law countries use their voting poweron environmental and social shareholder proposals to influence the CSR of commonlaw firms.
2) We find that civil law institutional investors support environmental and socialshareholders proposals for financial rather than social reasons.
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LiteratureWhich investors?
• Social norms: effect of IO on CSR is driven by social norms (Dyck et al., 2018).
• Legal origin: CSR is higher in civil law countries (Liang & Renneboog, 2017) stakeholder orientation and concentrated ownership (La Porta et al., 1998).
What are their motives?• Individual investors are more values-based (Riedl & Smeets, 2017).
• We argue that civil law institutional investors are value-seeking enlightened value maximization (Jensen, 2002).
• European investors are more likely to believe that SRI has a positive effect on financial performance (Amel-Zadeh & Serafeim, 2017; van Duuren et al., 2016; CFA Institute, 2017).
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Framework
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Hypotheses
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Hypotheses
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• ±4,000 U.S. E&S shareholder proposals from ISS between 2000 and 2013• Institutional ownership from Factset, financial data from Compustat and CRSP• ESG data from MSCI KLD
• Hypothesis 1: Proposal-level logistic regression
• Proposal controls (Π): topic, sponsor type, repetition• Firm controls (X): assets, PTB, ROA, sales growth, dividends, capex, debt/equity• Year and industry fixed effects (Λ)
Data & Methodology (1)
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Probability of Withdrawal (Hypothesis 1)
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• Hypothesis 2: Fractional logit model (Papke and Wooldridge, 1996)
• Proposal controls (Π): type, sponsor, repetition• Firm controls (X): assets, PTB, ROA, sales growth, dividends, capex, debt/equity• Year and industry fixed effects (Λ)
Methodology (2)
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Vote Support (Hypotheses 2 and 3)
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Vote Support (Hypotheses 2 and 3)
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Robustness• ESG Source
- MSCI ESG 2007 to 2013, industry adjusted score- Results are robust
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Vote Support (Hypotheses 2 and 3)
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Robustness• ESG Source
- MSCI ESG 2007 to 2013, industry adjusted score- Results are robust
• Proxy advisors- ISS and Glass Lewis recommendations from ProxyInsight >2011- Large influence of advisors, but results hold- Interpret with caution small sample
• Materiality- Mapped each proposal to SASB’s Materiality Map- 33.4% of proposals is classified as material- Material proposals do not obtain higher support and are not more likely to be withdrawn
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Conclusion• Institutional investors from civil law countries use their voting power to influence the
CSR of common law firms.
• We provide evidence that institutional investors from civil law countries are more likely to support CSR for financial rather than social reasons.
• We contribute to the literature on:- CSR and shareholder activism- Investors’ motives for investing socially responsible- CSR and corporate ownership
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Legal Origins and Institutional Investors’ Support for Corporate Social Responsibility
Rob Bauer, Jeroen Derwall, and Colin Tissen JRC Summer School
Contact: [email protected]
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Mean Institutional Ownership by Legal Origin
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Proposal Statistics
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Descriptive Statistics
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Results %Votes For (Hypotheses 2 & 3)
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