Measuring firm sustainability using textual data

Finance has experienced a significant increase in studies tackling issues related to Sustainability in recent years. The majority of them rely on third-party ESG ratings which are diverse, not transparent, and lack standardization. Our project aims to use text-mining techniques to identify ESG dimensions in sustainability-related documents and offer an automatic measurement across the ESG dimensions. One objective of the generate text-based ESG scores will be then to establish correlations and trends between financial performances and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs.

Faculty Supervisor:

Gilles Caporossi

Student:

Partner:

Novisto

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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