Financial Speculation or Capital Investment? Evidence From Relationship Between Corporate Financialization and Green Technology Innovation

In this paper, 3,493 non-financial listed companies in China from 2007 to 2018 are selected as samples to study the impact of corporate financialization on green technology innovation through the panel regression model as well as the mediating effect model, so as to identify whether enterprises tend...

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Main Authors: Zhehao Huang, Xue Li, Shuanglian Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2020.614101/full
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description In this paper, 3,493 non-financial listed companies in China from 2007 to 2018 are selected as samples to study the impact of corporate financialization on green technology innovation through the panel regression model as well as the mediating effect model, so as to identify whether enterprises tend to financial speculation or capital investment. The main conclusions are as follows. First, corporate financialization has a speculative tendency instead of strategic capital investment. Second, corporate financialization shows heterogeneous impact on green technology innovation, which is dominated by capital expenditure. Third, the heterogeneity is reflected in two aspects: attribute characteristics and external environment. The attribute characteristics of the enterprise includes whether the industry belongs to pollution industry and the ownership structure. The external environment includes the location of enterprise and the degree of financing constraints. Fourth, there are significant differences between attribute characteristics and external environment of enterprises in the impact of financialization decision-making behavior. The deviation caused by enterprise attributes is less than 10%, but the deviation caused by external environment is close to 80%.
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spelling doaj.art-96d4369999f64f1db2c9ecfdaf10eb8b2022-12-21T23:21:15ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2021-01-01810.3389/fenvs.2020.614101614101Financial Speculation or Capital Investment? Evidence From Relationship Between Corporate Financialization and Green Technology InnovationZhehao Huang0Xue Li1Shuanglian Chen2Guangzhou Institute of International Finance, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, ChinaSchool of Economics and Statistics, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangzhou Institute of International Finance, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, ChinaIn this paper, 3,493 non-financial listed companies in China from 2007 to 2018 are selected as samples to study the impact of corporate financialization on green technology innovation through the panel regression model as well as the mediating effect model, so as to identify whether enterprises tend to financial speculation or capital investment. The main conclusions are as follows. First, corporate financialization has a speculative tendency instead of strategic capital investment. Second, corporate financialization shows heterogeneous impact on green technology innovation, which is dominated by capital expenditure. Third, the heterogeneity is reflected in two aspects: attribute characteristics and external environment. The attribute characteristics of the enterprise includes whether the industry belongs to pollution industry and the ownership structure. The external environment includes the location of enterprise and the degree of financing constraints. Fourth, there are significant differences between attribute characteristics and external environment of enterprises in the impact of financialization decision-making behavior. The deviation caused by enterprise attributes is less than 10%, but the deviation caused by external environment is close to 80%.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2020.614101/fullcorporate financializationgreen technology innovationenterprise attributeexternal environmentheterogeneous impact
spellingShingle Zhehao Huang
Xue Li
Shuanglian Chen
Financial Speculation or Capital Investment? Evidence From Relationship Between Corporate Financialization and Green Technology Innovation
Frontiers in Environmental Science
corporate financialization
green technology innovation
enterprise attribute
external environment
heterogeneous impact
title Financial Speculation or Capital Investment? Evidence From Relationship Between Corporate Financialization and Green Technology Innovation
title_full Financial Speculation or Capital Investment? Evidence From Relationship Between Corporate Financialization and Green Technology Innovation
title_fullStr Financial Speculation or Capital Investment? Evidence From Relationship Between Corporate Financialization and Green Technology Innovation
title_full_unstemmed Financial Speculation or Capital Investment? Evidence From Relationship Between Corporate Financialization and Green Technology Innovation
title_short Financial Speculation or Capital Investment? Evidence From Relationship Between Corporate Financialization and Green Technology Innovation
title_sort financial speculation or capital investment evidence from relationship between corporate financialization and green technology innovation
topic corporate financialization
green technology innovation
enterprise attribute
external environment
heterogeneous impact
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2020.614101/full
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