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Academic Journal of Business & Management, 2022, 4(3); doi: 10.25236/AJBM.2022.040302.

Environmental Information Disclosure and Export Product Quality: Extension of Product Quality Heterogeneity Model and a DID Analysis on China's Industrial Data

Author(s)

Wanwan Liu1

Corresponding Author:
Wanwan Liu
Affiliation(s)

1School of Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

Abstract

Firstly, based on the product quality heterogeneity model, this paper analyzes the influence mechanism of environmental information disclosure on the quality of industrial export products. Secondly, using China's industrial data and HS-6 quantile product data in UN Comtrade database from 2005 to 2016, this paper constructs a generalized DID model to investigate the impact of environmental information disclosure on the quality of China's industrial export products. The results show that: environmental information disclosure significantly improves the quality of China's industrial export products. The promotion effect is greater in industries with low financing constraint, strong profitability, high labor intensity and high degree of government control. In addition, environmental information disclosure can improve the quality of export products by stimulating innovation and improving productivity, and reduce the quality of export products by increasing the production costs.

Keywords

Environmental Information Disclosure; Export Product Quality; Product Quality Heterogeneity Model; Generalized DID Model

Cite This Paper

Wanwan Liu. Environmental Information Disclosure and Export Product Quality: Extension of Product Quality Heterogeneity Model and a DID Analysis on China's Industrial Data. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 3: 7-17. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2022.040302.

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