Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 425, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138873
Keywords
Green finance policy; Total factor productivity; Difference-in-Differences model; Quasi-natural experiment
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Treating the implementation of green finance policy as a quasi-natural experiment, this study explores its effect on the total factor productivity of firms. The findings show that the policy has an inhibitory effect on total factor productivity, with different impacts on firms based on ownership and industry type. The analysis also reveals that the policy leads to a flow of financial resources from polluting firms to non-polluting firms, resulting in a significant decline in technological innovation for polluting firms.
Treating the implementation of green finance policy as a quasi-natural experiment, we explore its effect on the total factor productivity of firms, then perform several tests to illustrate the stability of this effect, and then explain this effect based on financing constraint and technological innovation. It has been found that the green finance policy has an inhibitory effect on total factor productivity, which is validated in various tests including the parallel trend test, the heterogeneity treatment effect test, and the robustness test including the placebo test and endogeneity test. The heterogeneity analysis shows that different ownership types and industry type of firms have different impacts on this effect. Further extended analysis reveals that the policy leads to the flow of financial resources from polluting firms to non-polluting firms. There is no significant improvement in techno-logical innovation in non-polluting firms, while there is a significant decline in technological innovation in polluting firms due to lack of credit support. Finally, we make several recommendations based on our findings to achieve precise implementation of the green finance policy.
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