Peter A Allard School of Law

Vice Capital: Investing in Sinful Companies.

Andrew Jennings will present an interview-based study on the treatment of vice/sin startups that seek institutional venture capital. As a study of vice aversion by investors, professor Jennings' paper offers a “dark side” perspective for the ESG literature. It also contributes to an established literature on vice in capital markets. Finally, its focus on private capital markets, as well as its use of qualitative methods, allow it to challenge assumptions in the prior finance literature on the mechanisms of vice/sin aversion in public capital markets.

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