.... Findings Public environmental supervision exerts a statistically and significantly inhibitory effect on corporate greenwashing. This effect is further amplified by formal government environmental regulation, indicating a complementary and synergistic relationship between informal societal oversight...

... on corporate governance and bank loan announcements effect. In recent years, environmental regulations have been strengthened by environment court, which is dedicated to adjudicating environmental protection cases. Such a court has been adopted across the world (Amirante, 2011 ; Preston, 2011). In China...

... of endogeneity, the technique of instrumental variable method has been applied. Findings The study confirms the U-shaped effect of the depth and restriction of mixed ownership on SOEs’ environmentally responsive behaviour in the manufacturing industry, especially for lower environmental regulation and higher...

... will be censured, and officials involved may face disciplinary inquiries, warnings or even be held accountable. Therefore, compared to other environmental regulation policies without clear objectives, the CICP is a command-type environmental regulation with greater restrictions on regions. Second, the CICP...