Environmental regulations, technical progress and corporate performance: Empirical study based on chinese provincial panel data

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1047-1056

  Liu, Wei ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Huang, Chengming ^b   Zhang, Xianqi ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Hainan College of Economic and Business   (China)

Author keywords

China; Corporate performance; Environmental regulation; Technical progress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930196251     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2014.110     Document Type: Article

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