{"title":"The impacts of green bonds on the green innovation: Evidence from the corporate green transformation in China","authors":"Minhua Yang , Linkun Ma , Yan Gu , Wenfeng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101252","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the impacts of green bonds on green innovation of 3750 Chinese listed firms from 2016 to 2020. Green bonds positively affect green innovation, which is robust to several robustness checks, by mitigating financial constraints and increasing R&D investments. The effects of green bonds contribute to economic consequences (green transformation) and environmental performance. Only green enterprise bond contributes to green innovation. Such effect is more pronounced for SOEs, firms in environmentally-friendly industries, firms with highly-educated CEOs, and firms with better green development. Moreover, green bonds increase environmental investments and green total factor productivity, which contributes to green transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47886,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Markets Review","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101252"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Emerging Markets Review","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566014125000019","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper investigates the impacts of green bonds on green innovation of 3750 Chinese listed firms from 2016 to 2020. Green bonds positively affect green innovation, which is robust to several robustness checks, by mitigating financial constraints and increasing R&D investments. The effects of green bonds contribute to economic consequences (green transformation) and environmental performance. Only green enterprise bond contributes to green innovation. Such effect is more pronounced for SOEs, firms in environmentally-friendly industries, firms with highly-educated CEOs, and firms with better green development. Moreover, green bonds increase environmental investments and green total factor productivity, which contributes to green transformation.
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