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As COVID-19 turned into a global pandemic, world markets gradually began to recover after initial dynamic declines. Restrictions, and their subsequent loosening, were, and are, not without significance for the financial markets. These particular circumstances provide a unique opportunity to contribute to the literature by focusing on the potential resilience of ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing in an era of crisis. This article analyses selected socially responsible investments from the Central Europe region during the two-year pandemic period. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the performance of the WIG-ESG, VÖNIX and CECE SRI indices by comparing their main risk and return characteristics with typical stock exchange benchmarks. A comparative analysis of the indices in a period of uncertainty that is a pandemic shows that Austrian ESG investments have an advantage in profitability and efficiency over the other indices of the region. The Polish WIG-ESG index, despite its growing popularity and positive returns, failed to conquer the market in the period under review.
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- Category:
- Monographic publication
- Type:
- rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
- Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2023
- Bibliographic description:
- Wałachowska A.: ESG investing during the Covid-19 crisis. Evidence from Central European Stock Exchanges// Sustainable Finance and the Global Health Crisis/ : Routledge, 2023,
- Sources of funding:
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- Free publication
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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