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Does ESG Travel around the World? Evidence from Multinational Firms in China
Dongxu Li, Xiaoxue Hu, Oct 20, 2021Using a sample of 3,770 Chinese listed firms during 2015–2020, we find that firms’ ESG ratings increase with foreign sales ratios. The higher-rated multinationals have more foreign subsidiaries located in countries with better ESG conditions, and their equity shares are held to a greater extent by institutional investors, especially by foreign institutions. The multinationals’ higher ESG ratings can be justified by...
Clean Air as an Experience Good in Urban China
Matthew E. Kahn, Weizeng Sun, Siqi Zheng, Oct 14, 2020If clean air is a valued experience good, then the short-term reduction in pollution in the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 shutdown could have persistent medium-term effects on reducing urban pollution levels as cities adopt new “blue sky” regulations to maintain recent pollution progress. Using data from 144 cities in China, we find that the largest experience good effect should take place for cities featuring a high pollution-sensitive population and where air quality has sharply improved during the pandemic. The residents...
Does External Monitoring from the Government Improve the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises?
Shengyu Li, Hongsong Zhang, Nov 03, 2021We investigate the impact of external monitoring from the government on state-owned enterprise performance, using the variation in monitoring strength arising from a nationwide policy change and firms’ geographic location in China. We utilize a structural approach to estimate input prices and productivity separately at the firm level using commonly available production data. We show that...
The Quiet Revolution in Women’s Human Capital and the Gender Earnings Gap in the People’s Republic of China
Zhengyang Li, Guochang Zhao, Jul 08, 2020Since the 1980s, girls’ educational attaintment increased more quickly than boys’. As a result, the gender education gap decreased and even reversed in China. How does the gender earnings gap change in the face of increasing female human capital? What are the implications for the Chinese gender earnings gap in the future? This column will shed light on this interesting topic within and across cohorts.
Government as Venture Capitalists in AI
Martin Beraja, Wenwei Peng, David Yang, Noam Yuchtman, Nov 06, 2024This article discusses that government venture capital funds in China are more geographically dispersed than private venture capital, particularly in inland and less developed areas, and they are more inclined to invest in AI companies with weaker ex-ante productivity signals.
