Green Product Imports and Green Transformation of Enterprises:Evidence Based on Chinese Listed Companies
In order to achieve the goals of carbon peak and carbon neutrality,Chinese enterprises need to accelerate the pace of green transformation.This article starts from the perspective of importing green products and deeply analyzes how and through which channels the reduction of import tar-iffs on green products will affect the green transformation of enterprises.This study uses data from listed companies sample from 1996 to 2018 to em-pirically test the relationship between green product imports and corporate green transformation.This research has shown that the reduction of import tariffs on green products can enhance the green economic performance of enterprises,promote green technology innovation,and thus promote the corporate green transformation.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the decreasement of import tariffs on green products has a stronger driving effect on the green transformation process of enterprises in the eastern region,and non-state-owned enterprises.Mechanism verification reveals that the de-crease in import tariffs on green products will have a positive impact on the green economic performance and green technology innovation of enterpri-ses by optimizing energy structure,improving energy utilization efficiency and R&D investment.In addition,further research shows that the each dimension of green transformation in enterprises interact with each other,and the progress of green technology in enterprises can also lead to an im-provement in green economic performance.At present,the reduction of non-tariff barriers for green products will not have a significant impact on the green economic performance of enterprises,but will reduce the innovation ability of green technology of enterprises.
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