The Porter hypothesis holds that appropriate environmental regulation creates a win-win situation for the simultaneous, coordinated development of the environment and the economy in a certain locale. To open the black box of the Porter hypothesis in the Chinese context, this paper considers...

Information-based policies play an important role in environmental protection efforts around the world. These policies use information provision and/or disclosure to shape behavior in order to meet the policy objective; for example, mandatory information disclosure requires firms to measure and...