Environmental regulation and corporate cash holdings: evidence from China’s new Environmental Protection Law

Exploiting the 2014 Environmental Protection Law (EPL) in China as quasi-natural experiments, we adopt a difference-in-differences approach to examine the impact of environmental regulation on corporate cash holdings. We document that heavy-polluting firms increase their cash holdings 15% more than...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Chao, Cheng, Jinkai
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163182
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English