Externalities and the Common Owner

August 2021
Citation:
51
ELR 10659
Issue
8
Author
Madison Condon

This Article expands the consideration of the effects of common ownership from the industry level to the market-portfolio level and argues that diversified investors should rationally be motivated to internalize intra-portfolio negative externalities. This portfolio perspective can explain the increasing climate change-related activism of institutional investors, who have applied coordinated shareholder power to pressure fossil fuel producers into substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Madison Condon is an Attorney for the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law.

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