Greenwashing and product market competition

Mohamed Arouri, Sadok El Ghoul and Mathieu Gomes ()
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Mathieu Gomes: CleRMa - Clermont Recherche Management - ESC Clermont-Ferrand - École Supérieure de Commerce (ESC) - Clermont-Ferrand - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne

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Abstract: This study examines the relationship between corporate greenwashing and product market competition (PMC). Using an unbalanced panel of 324 US fi rms over the 2005-2015 period, we fi nd that the negative impact of PMC on greenwashing is conditional on the level of environmental costs. Our results suggest that PMC is an effective disciplinary mechanism for achieving economic efficiency --in the case of fi rms featuring a high level of environmental costs-- through an increase in the disclosure of reliable and material information.

Keywords: Greenwashing; Product market competition; Environmental cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Finance Research Letters, inPress

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