CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ITS EFFECT ON CORPORATE BOND YIELD SPREAD

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School of Business | Bachelor's thesis
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2019

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Rahoituksen laitos

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Rahoitus

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en

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22+4

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This study examines whether there is a relation between Corporate social responsibility activities and U.S. corporate bond risk premium in U.S. secondary markets by analyzing a sample with a period of 2002 – 2012. The risk premium is estimated as a yield spread between corporate bond yields and U.S. Treasury yields with similar characteristics. I find that overall corporate social responsibility score is negatively associated with corporate bond yield spread and when ceteris paribus, increase of overall corporate social responsibility score by one-point results a decrease of risk premium by 4,48 basis points. Suggesting that fixed-income investors value socially responsible firm’s less risky.

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Joenväärä, Juha

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corporate social responsibility, CSR, corporate bond yield spread, corporate bond market

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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201912296800

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