Market reactions to a cross-border carbon policy: Evidence from listed Chinese companies

Hongtao Shen, Qing Yang, Le Luo and Nan Huang

The British Accounting Review, 2023, vol. 55, issue 1

Abstract: The effects of cross-border carbon policy have attracted increasing attention worldwide. We investigate the reaction of the Chinese stock market to the announcements of 12 legislative events associated with the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (EU CBAM). Our results, based on all industrial companies listed on China's Shenzhen or Shanghai Stock Exchanges, show that Chinese companies that export their products to the EU experience a more negative cumulative abnormal return around EU CBAM events than their counterparts (non-export companies and non-EU export companies). A cross-sectional analysis reveals that negative stock market reactions to the legislative events are greater when companies have greater carbon emissions intensity. Our further analyses show that being listed in both A-share and H-share markets, participating in a carbon emissions trading scheme, and having intensive cross-border collaboration mitigate the adverse market reactions. Our results show that the Chinese market is sensitive to legislative announcements associated with this cross-border carbon policy.

Keywords: Cross-border carbon policy; EU CBAM; Market reaction; China; Event study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2022.101116

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