| 主讲人 |
Min Du |
简介 |
<p>Biodiversity loss has emerged as an important environmental risk with growing implications for corporate strategy and technological development. This paper examines whether biodiversity regulation improves firm-level technological progress. We exploit China’s Green Shield Action, a nationwide campaign launched in 2017 to strengthen ecological protection in national nature reserves, as a quasi-natural experiment. Using a difference-in-differences model with panel data on Chinese A-share listed firms from 2010 to 2023, we find that biodiversity regulation increases firms’ total factor productivity, with effects emerging after a policy lag. Mechanism analysis shows that green innovation is an important channel linking biodiversity regulation to technological progress. However, the innovation response differs across firms: while the overall effect operates mainly through substantive green innovation, firms already engaged in patenting exhibit stronger strategic green innovation responses. These findings provide new evidence on how biodiversity regulation shapes corporate innovation and productivity. </p> |
| 主讲人简介 |
<p>Professor Anna Min Du is a Fellow of climaTRACES at the University of Cambridge, UK, and an expert at the Institute of Urban Soft Power, Peking University, China. She is a Full Professor of Finance (Permanent/Chair) at the Business School of Edinburgh Napier University, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Akron, USA, and EDC Paris Business School, France. Professor Du serves as an Associate Editor for several leading journals, including the <em>International Journal of Finance and Economics</em> (ABS 3), <em>European Journal of Finance</em> (ABS 3), and <em>Energy Economics</em> (ABS 3, ABDC A*). She is a Co-Editor of <em>Research in International Business and Finance</em> (ABS 2, ABDC A, Q1). She also sits on the Editorial Boards of <em>Corporate Governance: An International Review</em> (ABS 3), <em>Financial Innovation</em> (CAS Zone 1), and <em>EIA Review</em> (CAS Zone 1). In addition, she acts as a referee for over 50 journals ranked Q1 or ABS 3 and above. Professor Du earned her PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2014. She has published more than 90 papers in SSCI Q1 journals, including 3 in ABS 4 journals. She has supervised 8 PhD graduates and currently supervises 8 PhD candidates and 8 master’s students. Professor Du is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK, with over ten years of teaching and research experience in higher education across British universities.</p> |
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“邹至庄讲座”青年学者论坛（第96期） |
