| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Trial Status | Before in_development | After completed |
| Field Last Published | Before October 23, 2025 07:03 AM | After June 18, 2026 08:13 AM |
| Field Study Withdrawn | Before | After No |
| Field Intervention Completion Date | Before | After October 24, 2025 |
| Field Data Collection Complete | Before | After Yes |
| Field Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) | Before | After 8 |
| Field Was attrition correlated with treatment status? | Before | After No |
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After 3,119 |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After Absolute Emissions: 581, Relative Emissions: 578, Historic Emissions (30%): 297, Household Equivalent Emissions: 296, Incentivised Version: 296, Historic Emissions 3%: 288, Real Company Names: 199, Corporate Financial Data: 584 |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After Yes |
| Field Restricted Data Contact | Before | After [email protected] |
| Field Program Files | Before | After No |
| Field Data Collection Completion Date | Before | After October 24, 2025 |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After No |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After We investigate whether individuals correctly interpret corporate sustainability disclosures using a pre-registered survey experiment. We provide novel evidence that individuals can meaningfully differentiate emissions of firms along a greenness scale, even though their assessments exhibit a central tendency bias. This leads to overestimation of greenness among browner firms and underestimation among greener firms, with the bias disproportionately stronger for greener firms. We observe this bias even among finance professionals and sustainability experts. As a result, firms' financial incentives to invest in emissions reductions may be attenuated. However, we also demonstrate that some disclosure design features improve individuals' differentiation ability. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Fabisik, Kornelia and Rink, Sebastian, Objective vs. Perceived Corporate Greenness: Do Individuals Understand Corporate Sustainability Information? (January 31, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6342498 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6342498 |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6342498 |