Corporate ESG Practices,Total Factor Productivity Improvement and High-Quality Development of Chinese Economy——An Analysis Based on Microdata of Listed Companies in China
In recent years,green investment represented by ESG injects new impetus for the realization of the"dual carbon"goal,and lays the foundation for enterprises to transform into low-carbon and realize sustainable development.This paper utili-zes the data of 1229 listed companies from 2012 to 2021 to study the positive impact of corporate ESG practices on total factor productivity.The findings are as follows:(1)Corporate ESG practice can significantly reduce corporate financing con-straints,optimize the human capital structure,promote the improvement of techno-logical innovation ability,and thus achieve a steady improvement of total factor productivity;(2)In heavy polluting enterprises and state-owned enterprises,the effect of corporate ESG practice on promoting total factor productivity is more sig-nificant,and has a significant asymmetric impact on different types of enterprises;(3)Innovatively linking corporate ESG practice,total factor productivity and GDP,it is found that corporate ESG practice has a positive contribution to regional GDP.From the national level,corporate ESG practice plays an increasingly important role in high-quality economic development.