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Do Investors Care About Impact?

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2023
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Kölbel, J., Zeisberger, S., Heeb, F., & Paetzold, F. (2023). Do Investors Care About Impact? (No. 3765659; SSRN). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3765659

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We assess how investors’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for sustainable investments responds to the impact of those investments, using a framed field experiment. While investors have a substantial WTP for sustainable investments, they do not pay more for more impact. This also holds for dedicated impact investors. When investors compare several sustainable investments, their WTP responds to differences in impact but not to the absolute level of impact. Investors experience positive emotions when choosing sustainable investments, irrespectiv

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2023-08-02

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2023-09-19

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75

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1556-5068

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merlin-id:21784

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Kölbel, J., Zeisberger, S., Heeb, F., & Paetzold, F. (2023). Do Investors Care About Impact? (No. 3765659; SSRN). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3765659

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