Corporate Actions as Moral Issues
We examine nonpecuniary preferences across a broad set of corporate actions using a representative sample of the U.S. population. Our core findings, based on large-scale online surveys, are that (i) self-reported nonpecuniary concerns are large both for stock market investors and non-investors; (ii) concerns about the treatment of workers and CEO pay rank highest—higher than concerns about workforce diversity and fossil energy usage; (iii) moral universalism emerges as an important driver of nonpecuniary preferences. Combined, our findings provide new evidence on the importance of moral concerns as a key determinant of nonpecuniary preferences over corporate actions.
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Copy CitationZwetelina Iliewa, Elisabeth Kempf, and Oliver G. Spalt, "Corporate Actions as Moral Issues," NBER Working Paper 33749 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w33749.
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