A Study on the Influence of Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction Policy on Enterprise Financialization
Taking the listed entity enterprises from 2008 to 2021 as the research sample,this paper uses the double difference model to explore the effect and specific mechanism of energy conservation and carbon reduction policy on enterprise finance.The empirical re-sults show that the energy conservation and carbon reduction policy significantly reduces the financial level of policy pilot enterprises,which has passed a series of robustness and endogenous tests,such as parallel trend test,replacement variable and PSM-DID.The mechanism test indicates that the policy of energy conservation and carbon reduction restrains the financialization of enterprises by im-proving the ability of technological innovation and alleviating the myopia of managers.Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the effect stopping the companies being distracted from their intended purpose of the policy has heterogeneity,which is more significant when sen-ior executives have financial background,industry competition is high and economic policy is more stable.The expansion analysis man-ifests that the energy conservation and carbon reduction policy has changed the investment bias of enterprises and prevented them being distracted from their intended purpose.Based on this,the government should constantly optimize the construction of environmental reg-ulation system to achieve the win-win goal of environmental protection and economic development.
Environmental RegulationEnergy Conservation and Carbon Reduction PolicyEnterprise FinancializationTransformation of the Economy from Virtual to Real