Environmental regulation is an important driving force of green technology innovation. In this paper, environmental policy instruments are classified into three categories: command-control, market incentive and social-will. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2017, a...

We examine whether and how CEO foreign experience affects firm’s green innovation. Using a sample of Chinese public companies and hand-collected CEO foreign experience data, we document a positive association between CEO foreign experience and corporate green innovation. Furthermore,...

Using the policy of establishing specialized intellectual property courts (IPC), this paper explores how judicial protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) affects business performance. We find that establishing IPCs has led to a 14.4% improvement in the business performance of local...