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title: ESG Alpha in Corporate Bonds
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5051908/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5051908
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5051908
featured: 2025-10-27
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# ESG Alpha in Corporate Bonds

Firms' environmental traits create a distinct bond-market anomaly that improves portfolios beyond standard factors, and a simple model explains it.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5051908
- Identifier: SSRN 5051908
- Released: 2025-01-16
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 117 (2025-10-27): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-10-27/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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