Do state-owned enterprises really have better environmental performance in China? Environmental regulation and corporate environmental strategies

Q Wang, M Liu, B Zhang - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2022 - Elsevier
Although state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have long been criticized for being inefficient, they
play a vital role in realizing social welfare including the improvement of environmental …

Green financial investment and its influence on economic and environmental sustainability: does privatization matter?

S Zhongping, G Yongjun, X Yunbao, X Qifeng… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Green financial investment and privatization have been widely used as policy tools to
promote economic growth and efficiency in many countries. However, their effects on …

Market structure, oligopsony power, and productivity

M Rubens - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
I examine the effects of oligopsony power on allocative efficiency and income redistribution
by studying a size regulation in the Chinese tobacco industry that led to ownership …

A database linking Chinese patents to China's census firms

ZL He, TW Tong, Y Zhang, W He - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
To meet researchers' increasing interest in the fast growing innovation activities taking place
in China, we match patents filed with China's State Intellectual Property Office to firms …

Corporate tax policy and heterogeneous firm innovation: Evidence from a developing country

Y Shao, C Xiao - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper adds to the literature by identifying the causality of corporate tax policy on firm
innovation in a developing country. We exploit the China's 2006 corporate income tax base …

Measuring the incentive to collude: the vitamin cartels, 1990–99

M Igami, T Sugaya - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Do mergers help or hinder collusion? This article studies the stability of the vitamin cartels in
the 1990s and presents a repeated-games approach to quantify “coordinated effects” of a …

The impact of air pollution on venture capital: evidence from China

T Gan, Y Li, Y Jiang - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022 - Springer
Utilizing a dataset of VC investment from 2005 to 2018, we investigate the relationship
between air pollution and venture capital (VC) investment. We find that startups suffering …

Quid pro quo, knowledge spillover, and industrial quality upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese auto industry

J Bai, PJ Barwick, S Cao, S Li - 2020 - nber.org
While there is a vast body of research on the benefits of FDI in developing countries,
whether and how the form of FDI matters have received limited attention. In this paper, we …

Digitalization through supply chains: Evidence from the customer concentration of Chinese listed companies

R Liu, L Zheng, Z Chen, M Cheng, Y Ren - Economic Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates an observed contradiction between economic theory and empirical
trends, specifically, whether digitalization reduces customer concentration. Previous …

Equity reform and high-quality development of state-owned enterprises: evidence from China in the new era

H Liao, D Wang, L Zhu, J Zhao - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
How to improve the development quality of state-owned enterprises is of great significance
to the economic and social development in the transition period. And promoting the reform of …