Dorra Abdelmoula's research while affiliated with Université du Québec à Montréal and other places

Publications (2)

Article
The aim of this paper is to compare the financial performance of “green” and “non-green” U.S. REITs from January 2010 to February 2016 using risk-adjusted performance measures based on multi-factor models. First, we use performance measures (including the generalized Treynor ratio) able to capture the variety of systematic risk sources related to r...

Citations

... This finding seems rather counter-intuitive because a higher environmental score is positively related to cost-effectiveness and better financial performance (e.g., Guenster et al. (2011)). Nevertheless, Eichholtz et al. (2012) and Coën et al. (2018) reported insignificant results for portfolio greenness and financial performance of REITs, whereas several researchers found a negative relationship between high costs of certification and firm value (Mariani et al 2018) as well as environmental regulation and firm value (Brounen and Marcato 2018;Rassier and Earnhart 2010). As discussed previously, the negative results provide evidence for the tradeoff hypothesis. ...