We use the short-lived, but high-profile, China Top Brand Award to examine the causal effects of nonmonetary awards on firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from...

The environment governance in China is a hybrid of mandatory and voluntary regulations in implementation and enforcement. This paper aims to explore how voluntary environment regulations (VERs) such as ISO14001 certification affect corporate green innovation (CGI) and the role of mandatory...