How do Personal Incentives of Mutual Fund Managers impact ESG investments?
Project Description
In this project, we examine whether there are personal incentives of mutual fund managers when they make ESG decisions. We use data from US mutual fund managers.
Supervisor
YEGEN, Eyueb Enes
Quota
5
Course type
UROP1000
UROP1100
UROP2100
UROP3100
UROP4100
Applicant's Roles
Students would need to help with cleaning data and help processing such data. The data cleaning task mainly includes going through matches that we generate using AI and machine learning methods. Students only need to have access to Excel and DO NOT need coding background to help with this project.
Applicant's Learning Objectives
- Gain first-hand experience with how research is conducted.
- Understand what personal incentives mutual fund managers may have when making ESG investment decisions
- Understand the basics of ESG investing in the real world
- Understand what personal incentives mutual fund managers may have when making ESG investment decisions
- Understand the basics of ESG investing in the real world
Complexity of the project
Easy