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The financial crisis that the world has been living since the summer of 2007 has shown the importance of the financial sector for the proper functioning of economies. For the European countries the financial crisis has signified a reduction in the volume of credit granted, decreased activity in international markets and an increase of risk and instability. Financial entities have seen how they have had to change their way of operating, adapting to a situation in which there exist difficulties in obtaining finance in international markets, both in volumes and in terms of interest rates, and in which the levels of risk are substantially higher. Moreover, financial entities degree of risk aversion has increased considerably, which has translated into a hardening of credit conditions.
When you buy something on credit, you take possession of your purchase now and pay for it in the future. At its heart, credit is based on trust – the lender trusts your ability and intent to pay. Your credit history shows how you’ve handled credit in the past, and suggests how well lenders can trust your ability and intent to pay in the future.
Credit allows you to buy something, such as a new washer, a car, or even a house, while promising to pay for it from future earnings. Credit can also give you access to cash in an emergency, and enable you to consolidate debt to better manage your finances.
Prior research has been contradictory on the relationship between financial and environmental performance. There are both theoretical and empirical reasons for this lack of consensus. Complying with environmental regulation is costly and thus might hurt a firm's bottom line. On the other hand, a firm that is efficient at pollution control might also be efficient at production. Moreover, a firm that does well financially can afford to spend more of its resources on cleaner technologies. Among the reasons for the past discrepancy in empirical findings is the lack of objective criteria to evaluate environmental performance.
Some authors have looked at subjective rankings by public interest groups, others have examined pollution control expenditures across industries, while others have compared the market returns of socially conscious mutual funds to overall market trends. This study reports on a new objective data set detailing the environmental performance of the Standard and Poor's 500 companies. We construct two industry-balanced portfolios and compare both accounting and market returns of the "high polluter" to the "low polluter" portfolio. Overall, we find either no "penalty" for investing in the "green" portfolio, or a positive return from green investing. We also examine the stock market reaction to new information on the environmental performance of individual firms, and provide a preliminary analysis of which comes first good financial performance or good environmental performance.
