This paper evaluates the effectiveness of China’s pre-IPO environmental inspection policy, an innovative green finance initiative combining central inspections with public disclosure of policy compliance. Our theoretical frameworks hypothesise that centralised pre-IPO environmental inspection...

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of China’s pre-IPO environmental inspection policy, which is an innovative green finance initiative that combines inspections with public disclosure of policy compliance. Our theoretical model proposes that public access to environmental policy compliance...

China's recent rapid growth has been matched by large increases in exports and foreign direct investment (FDI), but considerable regional disparities in FDI flows exist. We use detailed province level data for China to examine the determinants of intra-country FDI flows. Specifically, we...

China's recent rapid growth has been matched by large increases in exports and foreign direct investment (FDI), but considerable regional disparities in FDI flows exist. We use detailed province level data for China to examine the determinants of intra-country FDI flows. Specifically, we...