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Executives' regulatory experiences and corporate social responsibility

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  • Wang, Ping
  • Wang, Xiaochun
  • Wu, Jie

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This paper investigates the impact of executives' regulatory experience on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Based on manually collected executive work experience, we find that executive regulatory experience has a significant negative impact on corporate CSR. To establish causality, we introduce a policy exogenous shock to construct a difference-in-differences design and show that the results remain unchanged. Finally, heterogeneity analysis shows that the above effect is more significant in non-state-owned enterprises. Mechanism analysis suggests that companies with executives who have regulatory experience may receive more government resources, thereby reducing the need to obtain resources through social responsibility activities.

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  • Wang, Ping & Wang, Xiaochun & Wu, Jie, 2023. "Executives' regulatory experiences and corporate social responsibility," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 55(PB).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finlet:v:55:y:2023:i:pb:s1544612323003562
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.103984
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