Customer concentration and corporate carbon emissions

• Main Authors: DENG, Saiying, DUAN, Tinghua, LI, Frank Weikai, PU, Xiaoling
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Customer-supplier relationships; Customer concentration; Carbon emissions; Finance; Finance and Financial Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7090; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8089/viewcontent/SSRN_id4180681__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper examines whether economic links with major corporate customers curb corporate carbon emissions. We show that supplier firms with a concentrated customer base have significantly lower carbon emissions. The baseline results are robust to alternative measures of carbon emissions and customer...