The impacts of political hierarchy on corporate pollution emissions: Evidence from a spatial discontinuity in China.
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2021 at "Journal of environmental management"
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113988
Abstract: Exploiting Chongqing's promotion to a province-level municipality, this paper investigates the causal effect of political hierarchy on corporate SO2 emissions using a spatial regression discontinuity (RD) design. In 1997, the prefecture-level Chongqing was promoted to… read more here.
Keywords: pollution emissions; hierarchy; political hierarchy; hierarchy corporate ... See more keywords