Stock Market Reactions to Pollution Information Disclosure: New Evidence from the Pollution Blacklist Program in China

Public disclosure of environmental information has been widely used as an important instrument in green finance. In this paper, we examine a blacklist program of polluting firms and conduct an event study to evaluate how the stock market responds to the pollution news. Our results show that the poll...

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Main Authors: Yalin Zhou, Jing Cao, Yujia Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/4/2262