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Session
Mutual Funds - 3
Time:
Saturday, 14/Dec/2024:
4:20pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Jinfei Sheng, UC Irvine
Discussant: Heebum Lee, Korea University
Location: 9B320 (3rd basement floor, International Hall)


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Environmental regulatory risks, firm pollution, and mutual funds’ portfolio choices

Seungho Choi1, Raphael Jonghyeon Park2, Simon Xu3

1Hanyang University; Queensland University of Technology; 2University of Technology Sydney; 3Harvard University

This paper examines how mutual funds’ portfolio holdings respond to environmental regulations. Using county-level ozone nonattainment designations induced by discrete policy changes in the National Ambient Air Quality Standards as a source of exogenous variation in local regulatory stringency, we find that funds underweight (overweight) those polluting stocks whose cash flows covary negatively (positively) with the regulatory shock. Our results are consistent with active portfolio rebalancing in response to expected changes in firm fundamentals due to negative cash flow shocks stemming from the costs of nonattainment regulation. Further analyses in the post-nonattainment period show that stocks with high exposure to nonattainment designations exhibit worse operating performance and increased regulatory compliance costs. The most underweighted of such firms also exhibit worse abnormal stock return performance. Funds that reduce their portfolio exposure to nonattainment designations see an improvement in their investment performance.


Choi-Environmental regulatory risks, firm pollution, and mutual funds’ portfolio-430.pdf


 
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