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Does a green tax impact a heavy-polluting firm’s green investments?

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  • Bo Cheng
  • Baoyin Qiu
  • Kam C. Chan
  • Hongxia Zhang

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By leveraging the quasi-natural experiment of the passage of the Environmental Protection Tax Law in late 2016 in China that imposed a pollution tax (green tax) on firms, we examine the impact of this tax on the green investments of heavy-polluting firms. Our difference-in-differences results show that the green tax enhances green investments of heavy-polluting firms. Specifically, firm-level green investments of heavy-polluting firms increased by approximately 38% after the green tax than before the green tax relative to an average firm. The findings are robust to a propensity score matching method, fixed-effects models, placebo tests, dynamic effect analysis, and after excluding alternative explanations. Additional analysis suggests that the positive effect of the green tax on green investments is more pronounced for large firms, state-owned firms, and firms with high analyst following. Collectively, we find a green tax policy contributes to green investments.

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  • Bo Cheng & Baoyin Qiu & Kam C. Chan & Hongxia Zhang, 2022. "Does a green tax impact a heavy-polluting firm’s green investments?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(2), pages 189-205, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:54:y:2022:i:2:p:189-205
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1963663
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    1. Jin, Youliang & Wang, Shujuan & Cheng, Xu & Zeng, Huixiang, 2024. "Can environmental tax reform curb corporate environmental violations? A quasi-natural experiment based on China's “environmental fees to taxes”," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    2. Azam, Muhammad & Ftiti, Zied & Hunjra, Ahmed Imran & Louhichi, Wael & Verhoeven, Peter, 2022. "Do market-supporting institutions promote sustainable development? Evidence from developing economies," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).

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