Footnote:
In: Forthcoming in Management Science, DOI/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3043
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments November 16, 2018 erstellt
Description:
This paper presents an industry equilibrium model where firms have a choice to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. We model CSR as an investment to increase product differentiation that allows firms to benefit from higher profit margins. The model predicts that CSR decreases systematic risk and increases firm value and that these effects are stronger for firms with high product differentiation. We find supporting evidence for our predictions. We address a potential endogeneity problem by instrumenting CSR using data on the political affiliation of the firm's home state