Roy, Preeti, Ahmad, Wasim, Sadorsky, Perry and Phani, B. V. (2022) What do we know about the idiosyncratic risk of clean energy equities? Energy Economics, 112. ISSN 0140-9883
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The COVID-19 pandemic stimulated the need to invest in clean energy firms for better returns and climate risk mitigation. This study provides a detailed overview of the impact of idiosyncratic risk (IVOL) on excess returns of 95 clean energy stocks. Overall, investors in clean energy stocks are guided by the pessimist group of investors who underprice the high IVOL stocks and demand high-risk premiums to diversify the firm-specific risk. Further, during the COVID-19 period, there is no significant relationship between clean energy excess stock returns and IVOL. During this period, clean energy stocks were exposed to higher information asymmetry, limiting the arbitrage opportunities and producing a weaker return-IVOL relation indicating that clean energy stocks reflect the properties of technology stocks. IVOL has a low level of persistence which may be helpful in forecasting. This study offers valuable insights for regulators and investors from the investment decisions, asset pricing, and diversification perspective.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/energy-econo... |
| Additional Information: | © 2022 Elsevier B.V. |
| Divisions: | International Inequalities Institute |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G10 - General G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G11 - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q4 - Energy > Q42 - Alternative Energy Sources |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2022 11:21 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 03:10 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115710 |
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