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Graduation project: statistically testing how ESG scores relate to firm performance.
Pre-registration
ESG scores rate companies on environmental, social and governance criteria. My graduation project asks one question: are these scores statistically related to firm performance? The project is in progress; findings will be added here as they come in.
I wrote the hypotheses before the results, not after them. The plan has four steps: data collection, exploratory analysis, hypothesis testing and interpretation. The model to be tested will be added here once the data is collected, before looking at any results.
Even if H₀ is rejected, that shows an association, not causation: ESG scores and performance may both be driven by third factors. I'll interpret the results with that distinction intact.