This paper examines the impact of environmental regulation stringency on the location choice of Chinese pollution-intensive firms. We find that the stringency reduces the number and growth rate of pollution-intensive firms in highly regulated regions. An important channel through which stringent...

This paper assesses the impact of environmental regulation stringency on the relocation of pollution-intensive firms in China. Pollution haven hypothesis (Porter theory) suggests that firms would (not) choose to relocate (but to innovate). We proxy the regulation stringency with multidimensional...

This study examined the influence of managerial ability on corporate innovation performance. Our findings suggest that higher levels of managerial ability significantly enhance an enterprise's innovation performance, while managerial risk taking has the potential to not only inhibit the...

Based on the matching data in the China Customs, Chinese industrial enterprises, and patent databases, this study uses the propensity score matching method (PSM) and the double difference model (DID) to study the impact of Internet use on enterprise innovation. The results show that Internet use...