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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Economics and Management
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1464961
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancing Carbon Reduction and Pollution Control Policies Management: Theoretical, Application, and Future Impacts View all 9 articles

The Rule of Law Strengthening on Corporate Green Innovation: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the Establishment of Environmental Courts in China

Provisionally accepted
Yujing Guo Yujing Guo 1*Nibing Liu Nibing Liu 1Le Chang Le Chang 1Hongguang He Hongguang He 2*
  • 1 Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
  • 2 Zhejiang A&F University, hangzhou, China

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    Building the rule of law in the ecological environment significantly contributes to the sustainable development of enterprises in the green economy, while also ensuring the effectiveness of environmental regulations. This paper utilizes a quasi-natural experiment by examining the establishment of Chinese environmental courts in intermediate people's courts beginning in 2007. By utilizing panel data collected from 341 prefecture-level cities between 2007-2021, we employ a multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) method to investigate the impact of environmental justice strengthening on corporate green innovation. Our findings suggested that environmental courts could effectively promote corporate green innovation, with a greater impact on substantive green innovation than strategic green innovation.The study categorizes environmental courts into two types: environmental

    Keywords: Environmental courts, green innovation, Environmental Justice Strengthening, quasi-natural experiment, DID (difference-in-difference) model

    Received: 25 Jul 2024; Accepted: 18 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Guo, Liu, Chang and He. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Yujing Guo, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
    Hongguang He, Zhejiang A&F University, hangzhou, China

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