The present paper introduced financing constraints (FC) to examine the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure and technological innovation capability (TIC). We employed Bloomberg’s ESG disclosure score covering the period 2011–2019, using overall...

In recent years, green finance, particularly green bond markets, has grown drastically in China. This paper selects the quarterly panel data of Chinese non-financial listed companies in 11 subdivided industry categories from January 1, 2016, to September 30, 2020, and conducts an empirical...

Socially and environmentally responsible investing is becoming the benchmark in financial markets. Promoting emerging industries’ environmental performance, social responsibility, and corporate governance (ESG) ratings are increasingly becoming the consensus of multinational green financial...

This paper introduces endogenous characteristics of enterprises to examine the non-linear relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure and the internal pay gap (IPG). We employed Bloomberg’s ESG disclosure score covering the period 2011–2019 to identify the...

Based on the macro-level data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2020, this paper takes policy environment and degree of marketization as moderating variables. The lnOFDI is an instrumental variable, and we use the 2SLS and GMM models to empirically test the impact of foreign direct...

This paper introduces endogenous characteristics of enterprises to examine the non-linear relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure and the internal pay gap (IPG). We employed Bloomberg’s ESG disclosure score covering the period 2011–2019 to identify the...