Do the resignations of politically connected independent directors affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from China

Q Li, M Guo - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper explores how forced resignations of politically connected independent directors
(political IDs for short) affect the performance of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using …

Is corporate social responsibility value relevant? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of anti-corruption campaign

F Xue, Q Chen, KC Chan, Z Yi - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Leveraging China's 2013 anti-corruption campaign (the Campaign) as a quasi-natural
experiment and a difference-in-differences (DID) research design, we examine which of the …

[HTML][HTML] Place-based policies and firm performance: Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

H Görg, A Mulyukova - European Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic
Zones in India to assess the direct effects of the program on firm performance. We combine …

The power of anti-corruption in environmental innovation: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

K Zhou, H Luo, D Ye, Y Tao - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of corruption in economic development around the world has been fully discussed,
but little is known about its environmental consequence, especially firms' sustainable …