Do environmental violations affect corporate loan financing? Evidence from China |
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Authors: | Hailiang Zou Saixing Zeng Ping Shuai |
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Institution: | 1. SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China;2. Antai School of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China |
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Abstract: | This article reports an empirical study suggesting that environmental violations generally have a negative influence on the level of loans that the violating firms hold in China and that after a violation announcement involving waste water discharge, firms are forced to take secured loans. These effects are found to be mitigated for state-owned firms and the media coverage of a certain violation event has a negative effect on the level of loans that firms obtain. Our work presents the evidence of a penalty mechanism in the credit market that fines firms for their environmental violations in a transition economy, and has some implications for business management and governmental policy. |
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Keywords: | corporate environmental violation loan financing secured lending state ownership media |
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