Environmental policy, company environment protection, and stock market performance: Evidence from China

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 100-112

  Kong, Dongmin ^a   Liu, Shasha ^b   Dai, Yunhao ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emerging market; Environment protection; Environmental policy; Event study; Firm values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896402554     PISSN: 15353958     EISSN: 15353966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/csr.1306     Document Type: Article

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