ESG rating of general stock indices

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# THE FILES HAVE BEEN CREATED BY SZILÁRD ERHART FOR A RESEARCH: ERHART (2022):
# Take it with a pinch of salt - ESG rating of stocks and stock indices, International Review of Financial Analysis, 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102308
# USERS OF THE FILES AGREE TO QUOTE THE ABOVE PAPER
# THE PYTHON SCRIPT (PYTHONESG_ERHART.TXT) HELPS USERS TO GET TICKERS BY STOCK EXCHANGES AND EXTRACT ESG SCORES FOR THE UNDERLYING STOCKS FROM YAHOO FINANCE.
# THE R SCRIPT (ESG_UA.TXT) HELPS TO REPLICATE THE MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENT DETAILED IN THE STUDY.
# THE EXPORT_ALL CSV CONTAINS THE DOWNLOADED ESG DATA (SCORES, CONTROVERSIES, ETC) ORGANIZED BY STOCKS AND EXCHANGES.
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# BEFORE USING THE MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS SCRIPT:
# (1) COPY THE goascores.csv and goalscores_alt.csv FILES ONTO YOUR ON COMPUTER DRIVE. THE TWO FILES ARE IDENTICAL.
# (2) SET THE EXACT FILE LOCATION INFORMATION IN THE 'Read in data' SECTION OF THE MONTE CARLO SCRIPT AND FOR THE OUTPUT FILES AT THE END OF THE SCRIPT
# (3) LOAD MISC TOOLS AND MATRIXSTATS IN YOUR R APPLICATION
# (4) RUN THE CODE.
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