We study the asset market for pollutive plants. Firms divest pollutive plants following
environmental risk incidents. However, pollution levels do not decline after divesting. The …

This paper shows that private equity (PE) ownership reduces pollution when the target
company faces high environmental enforcement or political risks. Conversely, PE-backed …

We examine the relationship between the judicial ideology of the local federal circuit court
and companies' plant-level air pollution. Environmental litigation in Republican-leaning …

Involuntarily green firms—those whose environmental score increases after mandatory
environmental regulations pass—try to lessen their compliance burden by donating to …

Being green is not easy, but is it also costly? We use US government procurement contracts
to calculate the cost of being green. Comparing contracts that are nearly identical but for one …

Observing information acquisition by various market participants can yield valuable insights
into the goals and strategies of investors, firms, and regulators. My dissertation uses a …

Dissertation June 2024 Edwin Zen revised Page 1 SCREENING AND MONITORING FOR
GREEN INVESTMENTS BY FINANCIAL INTERMEDAIRIES Edwin Kurniawan Zen Submitted to …

This paper investigates the causal relationship between housing wealth and heterogeneity
in environmental regulatory enforcement and pollution levels across US counties …

Using US plant-level data, we find that corporate emissions decline significantly when labor
mobility increases due to weaker enforcement of covenants not to compete (CNCs) in the …

Green firms, those with high environmental scores, increasingly support “traditionalist”
politicians who frequently vote against recommendations by the League of Conservation …