id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
faba-273	Babatunde Lawrence; Moodley, Fabian	Does ESG Compliance Drive Commercial Banks Stock Returns? Evidence from the South African Market	2025	10	.pdf	application/pdf	5885	316	50	Hence, using the panel data, fixed effect model, the study regressed bank returns (response variable) against ESG bank compliance (explanatory variable) alongside CPI, GDP, REER, M2 and short- and long- term interest rate as control variables. That being, the state of the bank sector dictates the effect, where ESG compliance has a negative effect on commercial bank returns during COVID-19 but pre-COVID-19, bank returns was positively influenced by ESG compliance.	cache/faba-273.pdf	txt/faba-273.txt