LITERATURE
We review a recent paper entitled ‘Why Do Retail Investors Pick Green Investments? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Crowdfunders’ by Christoph Siemroth and Lars Hornuf. The paper was published in the Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization in May 2023.
QUICK VIEW
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The authors find that a majority of investor participants choose social and environmental impact over higher returns on the condition that the impact is high enough.
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The experiment also found that investors allocate a larger share of funds to green projects if they value environmental impact more and if they expect a higher return.
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The data was collected on a crowdsourced platform, and the survey and experiment was performed via the online survey software Qualtrics.
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Participants could choose between three different environmental or social causes. The two environmental causes were carbonfootprint.com and Greenpeace. The third cause was the Red Cross, representing a social impact.
