Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106370
BuKwon Kim , Xiyong Dong , Seong-Min Yoon
Sustainable financing and regulations to achieve carbon neutrality are important global issues for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This study investigates the effects of various global uncertainties on the relationship between green bonds and carbon markets using GARCH-MIDAS-X and DCC-MIDAS-X models. We find that temporary shock-related uncertainty, such as infectious disease risk or geopolitical risk, weakens this relationship, whereas policy-related uncertainty, including uncertainty in climate, economics, and monetary policy, strengthens it. These findings highlight the complex dynamics between sustainable finance mechanisms and the importance of managing uncertainty to facilitate a gradual transition to a sustainable economy.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106342
Cuilan Li , Hailin Chen , Weilin Xie , Ping Wang
This study analyzes the impact of human capital tax incentives on enterprise innovation quality. For this purpose, it designs as a quasi-natural experiment, using China's pre-tax deduction policy for employee education and training expenses. The results confirm that tax incentives for human capital accumulation significantly enhance corporate innovation quality. The primary mechanisms driving this effect are the alleviation of financial constraints and the promotion of human capital accumulation. Moreover, this effect is stronger in regions with higher levels of financial development and greater human capital density.
{"title":"Tax incentives for human capital accumulation and enterprise innovation quality: Evidence of a quasi-natural experiment in China","authors":"Cuilan Li , Hailin Chen , Weilin Xie , Ping Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106342","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106342","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study analyzes the impact of human capital tax incentives on enterprise innovation quality. For this purpose, it designs as a quasi-natural experiment, using China's pre-tax deduction policy for employee education and training expenses. The results confirm that tax incentives for human capital accumulation significantly enhance corporate innovation quality. The primary mechanisms driving this effect are the alleviation of financial constraints and the promotion of human capital accumulation. Moreover, this effect is stronger in regions with higher levels of financial development and greater human capital density.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 106342"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142572673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106375
Nan Wang , Gang Yang , Jin Wu , Lv Wenya
This study investigates the effect of environmental information disclosure on corporate green technology innovation. Based on environmental information disclosure data and green technology innovation, we find that the environmental quantity and quality of disclosure have a significant positive impact on corporate green technology innovation, but the effect is mainly effective in non-state-owned enterprises. Further analysis shows that the enhanced green technology innovation could be attributed to alleviating financing constraints and improving business performance. The results of this study provide evidence that further deepening the environmental information disclosure system will contribute to the green transformation and development of enterprises.
{"title":"Impact of environmental information disclosure on green technology innovation:Evidence from China's Listed Companies","authors":"Nan Wang , Gang Yang , Jin Wu , Lv Wenya","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the effect of environmental information disclosure on corporate green technology innovation. Based on environmental information disclosure data and green technology innovation, we find that the environmental quantity and quality of disclosure have a significant positive impact on corporate green technology innovation, but the effect is mainly effective in non-state-owned enterprises. Further analysis shows that the enhanced green technology innovation could be attributed to alleviating financing constraints and improving business performance. The results of this study provide evidence that further deepening the environmental information disclosure system will contribute to the green transformation and development of enterprises.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 106375"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106355
Fei Ji , Weiming Liang , Xi Chen , Dongmin Kong
This research explores the effects of enhancing social credit on corporate investment, utilizing China's model city pilots for the Social Credit System Construction(SCSC) as a quasi-natural experiment. Our findings demonstrate that social credit improvement significantly increases enterprise investment levels, a conclusion supported by robustness tests. Mechanism analysis reveals that mitigating agency cost and enhancing debt financing are key factors driving increased corporate investment after the implementation of the SCSC. Heterogeneity results suggest that SCSC implementation is more effective for firms without political affiliation and with high institutional shareholding.
{"title":"Social credit improvement and enterprise investment","authors":"Fei Ji , Weiming Liang , Xi Chen , Dongmin Kong","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106355","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106355","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research explores the effects of enhancing social credit on corporate investment, utilizing China's model city pilots for the Social Credit System Construction(SCSC) as a quasi-natural experiment. Our findings demonstrate that social credit improvement significantly increases enterprise investment levels, a conclusion supported by robustness tests. Mechanism analysis reveals that mitigating agency cost and enhancing debt financing are key factors driving increased corporate investment after the implementation of the SCSC. Heterogeneity results suggest that SCSC implementation is more effective for firms without political affiliation and with high institutional shareholding.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 106355"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142660571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106379
Xianhuan Huang , Yujia Zhang , Kam C. Chan , Yao Wang
Digital tax enforcement (DTE) is an important external monitoring and governance mechanism for firms. We leverage the pilot of China's Golden Tax Project III as a natural experiment of DTE to investigate its impact on non-financial firms’ shadow banking. Using a sample of Chinese firms from 2007 to 2022, we document that DTE restrains shadow banking activities of non-financial firms by improving corporate transparency and mitigating agency problems. Additional analyses suggest that the effect is more salient for firms in regions with weak financial supervision, low-quality media monitoring, low-quality auditor, or weak internal control.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106356
Xuanyi Hu, Lanbiao Liu, Daoping Wang
Existing research on carbon risks mainly focuses on firm-level transition risks and regional physical risks, while the impact of regional transition risks on banks has been neglected. This study fills this gap by revealing the pricing effect of regional carbon transition risk in bank lending. Using syndicated loan data, we find a significant premium in loans in high carbon emission areas after the Paris Agreement. Moreover, the regional carbon risk premium is relatively low in areas with higher product marketization, lower legalization, and higher forest coverage levels. Our evidence suggests that banks have considered regional carbon transition risk.
{"title":"How does regional carbon transition affect loan pricing? Evidence from China","authors":"Xuanyi Hu, Lanbiao Liu, Daoping Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106356","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing research on carbon risks mainly focuses on firm-level transition risks and regional physical risks, while the impact of regional transition risks on banks has been neglected. This study fills this gap by revealing the pricing effect of regional carbon transition risk in bank lending. Using syndicated loan data, we find a significant premium in loans in high carbon emission areas after the Paris Agreement. Moreover, the regional carbon risk premium is relatively low in areas with higher product marketization, lower legalization, and higher forest coverage levels. Our evidence suggests that banks have considered regional carbon transition risk.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 106356"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142554936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106366
Christopher A. Hartwell , Elena Hubschmid-Vierheilig
They do, but not in ways one might think. Using an example from the 2016 Presidential election in the United States, we show that days with heavy doses of disinformation related to the candidates do not affect broad index stock returns. However, disinformation that was strongly pro-Hillary Clinton was associated with a substantial lowering of conditional volatility of stocks, even when controlling for other macroeconomic news and news sentiment.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106337
Yinghua Lin , Jingjing Ye
This study explores how corporate R&D impacts the conversion of intellectual property into intangible assets. Analyzing data from 2009 to 2022 across 6,487 observations from Chinese A-share listed companies, regression models examine R&D's influence, with moderating variables considered. Results consistently show a significant positive correlation between R&D investment and innovation propensity (p < 0.001). The overhead rate positively moderates this relationship, while ownership balance and employee density negatively moderate it. These findings highlight the crucial role of R&D in fostering innovation and emphasize the impact of strategic resource allocation and organizational structures on innovative outcomes.
本研究探讨了企业研发如何影响知识产权向无形资产的转化。通过分析 2009 年至 2022 年中国 A 股上市公司 6487 个观测值的数据,并考虑调节变量,建立回归模型来研究研发的影响。结果显示,研发投资与创新倾向之间存在显著的正相关性(p <0.001)。管理费率对这一关系起到正向调节作用,而所有权平衡和员工密度则对其起到负向调节作用。这些研究结果突出了研发在促进创新方面的关键作用,并强调了战略资源分配和组织结构对创新成果的影响。
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Despite the growing popularity of commodity exchange traded funds (ETFs), research on their risk transmission dynamics is lacking. The study employs a Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressive (TVP-VAR) model to analyze volatility transmission among commodity ETFs during significant events like the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical conflicts. It aims to minimize interconnectedness among ETFs to reduce associated risk using the Mean Co-skewness optimal portfolio (MCoP) technique. The findings emphasize the importance of adaptability in portfolio management and provide actionable information for investors seeking to optimize allocation and manage risk exposure effectively in dynamic market environments.
{"title":"Risk spillovers and optimal hedging in commodity ETFs: A TVP-VAR Approach","authors":"Elroi Hadad , Davinder Malhotra , Evangelos Vasileiou","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106372","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.frl.2024.106372","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the growing popularity of commodity exchange traded funds (ETFs), research on their risk transmission dynamics is lacking. The study employs a Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressive (TVP-VAR) model to analyze volatility transmission among commodity ETFs during significant events like the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical conflicts. It aims to minimize interconnectedness among ETFs to reduce associated risk using the Mean Co-skewness optimal portfolio (MCoP) technique. The findings emphasize the importance of adaptability in portfolio management and provide actionable information for investors seeking to optimize allocation and manage risk exposure effectively in dynamic market environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 106372"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142572675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106368
Shiwei Lin , Yiru Zhang , Yanuo Wang , Haipeng Geng
Despite considerable attention being devoted to the antecedents of ESG, existing research has overlooked the pivotal role of CEO reputation in determining a firm's ESG performance. We propose that ESG performance is influenced by reputable CEOs’ impression management motive to maintain their status as celebrity. Utilizing a longitudinal data set of A-share listed firms from 2014 to 2020, we find that firms led by highly reputable CEOs demonstrate superior ESG performance compared to those led by less reputable counterparts, particularly in contexts featured by uncertainty and munificence. Heterogeneity analyses reveal that CEOs with political connections and those in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are likely to place a higher value on their reputation. Our findings provide valuable insights for firms aiming to enhance ESG performance.
尽管人们对环境、社会和公司治理的先决条件给予了极大关注,但现有研究却忽视了首席执行官的声誉在决定公司环境、社会和公司治理绩效方面的关键作用。我们提出,ESG 表现受声誉卓著的首席执行官为保持其名人地位而进行的印象管理动机的影响。利用 2014 年至 2020 年 A 股上市公司的纵向数据集,我们发现,与声誉较低的首席执行官领导的公司相比,声誉较高的首席执行官领导的公司在环境、社会和公司治理方面表现更优,尤其是在不确定性和慷慨的背景下。异质性分析表明,有政治关系的首席执行官和国有企业的首席执行官可能更看重自己的声誉。我们的研究结果为旨在提高环境、社会和公司治理绩效的公司提供了宝贵的见解。
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