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title: Corporate ESG Narrative Transmission
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5059974/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5059974
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5059974
featured: 2024-12-18
citations: unknown
topic: Corporate Finance
---


# Corporate ESG Narrative Transmission

The study uses Latent Dirichlet Allocation and the XGBoost algorithm to predict the link between the topics in ESG reports and the investment decisions of institutional investors, providing guidance for institutional investors and corporations.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5059974
- Identifier: SSRN 5059974
- Released: 2024-12-16
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 79 (2024-12-18): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-12-18/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Corporate Finance

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