The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis postulates an inverted-U-shaped
relationship between different pollutants and per capita income, ie, environmental pressure …

In response to investors' and other stakeholders' concerns about corporate environmental
policies, many firms are voluntarily increasing their level of environmental disclosure since …

The implementation of market-based climate policies represented by the emission trading
system (ETS) is an important path for countries to participate in global climate governance …

In China, many firms advertise that they follow environmentally friendly practices to cover
their true activities, a practice called greenwashing, which can cause the public to doubt the …

We theorize that social media will reduce the incidence of corporate greenwash. Drawing on
the management literature on decoupling and the economic literature on information …

In an era of rising concern about financial performance and social ills, companies' economic
achievements and negative externalities prompt a common question: Does it pay to be …

The environmental Kuznets curve posits an inverted-U relationship between pollution and
economic development. Pessimistic critics of empirically estimated curves have argued that …

Investors and stakeholders in continental Europe are becoming increasingly concerned
about corporate environmental policies. As a result, many firms are voluntarily increasing the …

Environmental policies typically combine the identification of a goal with some means to
achieve that goal. This chapter focuses exclusively on the second component, the means …

This paper examines the sizes of the fines, damage awards, remediation costs, and market
value losses imposed on companies that violate environmental regulations. Firms that …