Corporate Greenwashing Unexpectedly Caused by the Green Credit Policy: A Comparison between Environmental Sustainability Information Disclosure and Actual Environmental Protection Investment from China’s Listed Companies
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greenwashing; corporate environmental investment; Green Credit Policy; credit constraint; environmental sustainability information disclosure;All these keywords.
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