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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fasano, Manuela
• Guardabascio, Barbara
• Stanghellini, Elena

Titel

The Role of ESG on Credit Rating in the Banking Sector: A Mediation Analysis to Disentangle the Direct and Indirect Effects

Ist Teil von

• ESG Integration and SRI Strategies in the EU, p.153-173

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The attention to sustainable finance has dramatically increased in the recent past. In Europe, the perceived relevance of financial sustainability is mainly due to the European Commission’s commitment to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) parameters into all aspects of the financial system. Our objective is to investigate the existence and extent of the impact of compliance with ESG on Credit Rating of European companies. With reference to the financial sector, we use mediation analysis to disentangle the effect of standard balance sheet indicators (measuring the stability and leverage of a company) on Credit Ratings, into a direct one and an indirect one, this second mediated by the ESG rating. Given the different implications of the three aspects of the overall score, Environment, Social and Governance, we apply the methodology to each score separately considered. Results show that only Governance plays a role, with a significant indirect effect that is, however, negligible in magnitude. Data are provided by Thomson Reuters.