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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Authors: Ye, Kangtao (Author) ; Zhang, Ran (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2011
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 104, Issue: 2, Pages: 197
Further subjects:B Corporate social responsibility
B Size
B China
B Debt financing cost
B Risk Management
B Corporate Philanthropy
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