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The role of financing constraints and environmental policy on green investment

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  • Costa, Helia
  • Demmou, Lilas
  • Franco, Guido
  • Lamp, Stefan

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Despite ambitious carbon reduction targets set by policymakers worldwide, current investments fall well short of the net-zero emissions scenario. This paper investigates the impact of financing constraints (FCs) on green investment among large, publicly listed firms across diverse sectors and countries. We find that FCs significantly reduce the propensity to undertake green investments by 2.5 percentage points. This result is even more pronounced in a difference-in-differences framework when focusing on the exogenous increase in financing costs resulting from the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/08. The study reveals further that the negative impact of FCs can be reduced by market-based environmental policies.

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  • Costa, Helia & Demmou, Lilas & Franco, Guido & Lamp, Stefan, 2024. "The role of financing constraints and environmental policy on green investment," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 239(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:239:y:2024:i:c:s0165176524002246
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111741
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    Keywords

    Green investment; Financing constraints; CO2 emissions; Environmental policy stringency;
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    JEL classification:

    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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