Green Bond Finance in Europe and the Stock Market Reaction Articles uri icon

authors

  • LABORDA HERRERO, JUAN
  • Sanchez-Guerra, Alvaro

publication date

  • April 2021

start page

  • 1

end page

  • 22

issue

  • 3

volume

  • 39

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1133-3197

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1697-5731

abstract

  • This paper examines the increasing importance of green, social and sustainable bonds in the financial markets. We first detail the theoretical framework, introducing sustainable development and green finance; relating green bonds to both ecological economics literature, and the central banks perspective; and, finally, analyzing the green bonds efficiency as a financial resource. Afterwards, we estimate the effect of green bond issues on the companies share"s price. So we collect the companies share' prices around the announcement of the issue. Then we build an event time window with different time ranges before and after the announcement with the accumulated returns in order to be able to observe the reaction in the market in different stages. We demonstrate that the announcement of a green bond has a positive reaction in the market by increasing the return on shares of green bond issuing

subjects

  • Business
  • Economics

keywords

  • green bonds; ecological economics; central banks; announcement of the green bond issue; shares'; prices reaction