Do Lenders Value Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from China
Drawing on risk mitigation theory, this article examines whether the improvement of firms’ social performance reduces debt financing costs (CDFs) in China, the world’s largest emerging market. Employing both the ordinary least square (OLS) and the two-stage instrumental variable regression methods,...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
2011
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 104, Issue: 2, Pages: 197 |
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Corporate social responsibility
B Size B China B Debt financing cost B Risk Management B Corporate Philanthropy |
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