These three papers look at various aspects of socially responsible investing, ESG investing and investing in controversial stocks. The first paper finds that SRI mutual funds perform equally as well as conventional mutual funds, outperforming in recession periods and outperforming in expansionary periods. The second paper looks at various aspects of the performance of ESG investing, finding evidence to suggest that it has outperformed in the US but only held its own in the Eurozone. The third paper examines the performance of investing in socially con...