 Green credit and firms’ span of global production stagesJiatong Jiang, Jiansuo Pei and Meng Zhang China Economic Review, 2024, vol. 87, issue C Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of the green credit policy on firms' span of global production stages. We leverage a comprehensive dataset, including customs trade data, industrial firm data, and Chinese Input-Output tables, and employ a difference-in-differences design that accounts for the pollution spillover effect within the production network. Our findings indicate that firms in pollution-intensive industries tend to move downstream in the global production line, accompanied by an expansion in the span of production stages. We present evidence that the broader range of production stages can be attributed to increased firm productivity. The effect is more pronounced for hybrid processing firms, private firms, foreign firms, and those in industries that rely on external finance dependence. Our study provides valuable insights into the impact of green credit policies and sheds light on firms' strategies in the context of green development. Keywords: Green credit policy; Span of production stages; Upstreamness; Global value chain; International trade (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:chieco:v:87:y:2024:i:c:s1043951x24001524 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102263 Access Statistics for this article China Economic Review is currently edited by B.M. Fleisher, K. X. D. Huang, M.E. Lovely, Y. Wen, X. Zhang and X. Zhu More articles in China Economic Review from Elsevier |
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