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title: Stochastic Social Preferences and Corporate Investment Decisions
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4479486/
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updated: 2026-09-26
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identifier: SSRN 4479486
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featured: 2025-12-28
citations: 1
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# Stochastic Social Preferences and Corporate Investment Decisions

Investor preferences affect firms' green investments, potentially slowing down the transition to sustainable practices.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4479486
- Identifier: SSRN 4479486
- Released: 2023-06-23
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 124 (2025-12-28): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-12-28/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 1
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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