When I know your taste: Retail customers’ environmental preferences and firm pollution

• Main Author: YANG, Mengjie
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Environmental preferences; ESG preferences; Retail customers; Stakeholders; Pollution shifting; ESG resource allocation; Accounting
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/588; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/etd_coll/article/1586/viewcontent/MengjieYang_Dissertation.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

I examine whether and how firms incorporate retail customers’ environmental preferences into their pollution decisions. Leveraging the staggered revelations of firms’ environmental negative news and the granularity of household grocery shopping records, I quantify local customers’ heterogeneous envi...