INVESTORS’ REACTIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURES: EVIDENCE FROM BORSA ISTANBUL

Year 2021, Volume: 43 Issue: 1, 145 - 156, 01.07.2021

V. Evrim Altuk Öztürk Ayşegül İşcanoğlu Çekiç

https://doi.org/10.14780/muiibd.960318

Abstract

The goal of this study is to analyze the impacts of the environmental corporate social responsibility on stock
performances. In other words, this study aims to measure investors’ reactions to environmental awareness.
In this regard, we consider listing in the BIST Sustainability Index as an environmental awareness and we
implement an event study around the announcement of the companies included in the BIST Sustainability
Index. This study covers the daily stock prices of 59 companies indexed in the BIST Sustainability Index
between 2014-2019. The eight different event windows are considered. According to the findings of the
study, no significant performance change is observed in the companies included or delisting from the
sustainability index in short time.

Keywords

Event Study, BIST Sustainability Index, Environmental Awareness, Stock Performance

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