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ESG Ratings, ESG News Sentiment, and Firm Credit Risk Perception

Fangfang Wang et al.

Financial Analysts Journal2026https://doi.org/10.1080/0015198x.2025.2591731article
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sponsorship: This work was supported by the Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (Spain) and the European Union under grant number PRE2021-099201; MCIN/AEI/10.13039/50110 0 011033 under grant numbers PID2020-114460GB-C31, PID2020-115018RB-C32, and PID2024-162262NA-I00, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona precompetitive research project under grant number PPC2025_706558. Florina Silaghi acknowledges financial support from Ramon Areces Foundation. This work was developed while Fangfang Wang was a teaching assistant at ESADE Business School and visiting PhD student at University of Zurich. (Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (Spain), European Union|PRE2021-099201, MCIN/AEI|PID2020-114460GB-C31, MCIN/AEI|PID2020-115018RB-C32, MCIN/AEI|PID2024-162262NA-I00, Autonomous University of Barcelona precompetitive research project|PPC2025_706558, Ramon Areces Foundation)

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  title        = {{ESG Ratings, ESG News Sentiment, and Firm Credit Risk Perception}},
  author       = {Fangfang Wang et al.},
  journal      = {Financial Analysts Journal},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/0015198x.2025.2591731},
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0.37

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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