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Schaefer, Hans-Bernd

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“…Meanwhile, the coefficients of court × DE are significantly negative, indicating that generating a deterrence effect is indeed one of the influencing channels for ECs to reduce firms' APEs. This conclusion is in line with our analysis in Section 2 and confirms the previous viewpoints [16,25].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…With the establishment of ECs, the pollution behaviors of these enterprises may be more constrained because they are more likely to be sued for their excessive emissions. Meanwhile, with the establishment of ECs, it may send a stronger deterrent signal to other polluters and improve the effect of emissions reductions [25]. As expected, we can see from the Panel B of Table 9, the establishment of ECs can promote industrial enterprises with high pollution intensity to reduce their APEs (3.27%).…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Therefore, law enforcement has become the key and needs to be strengthened. However, if the effect of the LEAs is not strong enough and litigation costs cannot be passed on to polluting firms, the emission reduction by enterprises will be lower than expected [13,25]. As representative LEAs in the environmental field, ECs have some important advantages in affecting the pollution behaviors of firms.…”

Section: Theoretical Analysis and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our study shows that firms' environmental performance within sectors has been improved. Second, previous studies about the impact of ECs on firms' environmental performance mainly belong to the theoretical analysis [13,22,23,25]. This research constructs a quasinatural experiment to explore this research topic and adopts suitable empirical methods (such as multiperiod DID and PSM-DID) and the unavailable firm-level datasets (CIEPD), providing our research conclusions with more authenticity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…of ECs could generate a deterrent effect on firms' illegal environmental behaviors [23,24], forcing them to proactively change production patterns. Hence, the establishment of ECs may improve the implementation of environmental regulations and encourage firms to reduce pollution [13,25].…”

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Law Reinforcement, Production Pattern and Enterprise Environmental Performance: Evidence from Environmental Courts in China

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Law reinforcement agencies can be established to improve enterprise environmental performance, a determinant of sustainable growth, but their micropractical evaluation is unclear. This paper uses panel data (1998–2014) from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Pollution Database and the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database and adopts the multiperiod difference-in-differences (DID) method to investigate the impact of law reinforcement on enterprise environmental performance (measured by air pollutant emissions). Using the establishment of China’s city-level environmental courts (ECs) as an identification strategy, the study finds a strong positive effect of EC establishment on firms’ environmental performance and confirms the validity of law reinforcement. Furthermore, the effects are heterogeneous for firms with different characteristics (including scale, profit, ownership, pollution intensity and location). Notably, we find that firms improve their environmental performance by changing their production pattern and energy consumption structure. Additionally, ECs could influence firms’ environmental behaviors by enhancing judicial efficiency and generating a deterrence effect. These findings show the government could improve enterprises’ environmental performance through law reinforcement but should consider the heterogeneous effect on different firms.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Heterogeneity Testsupporting

confidence: 59%

Section: Theoretical Analysis and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Role of Engos in Environmental Litigation: A French case study

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Faure

2015

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Both lawyers and economists are enthusiastic about the role of environmental non‐governmental organizations (ENGOs). However, when dealing with ENGOs, most academic studies focus only on their actions as interest/pressure groups and no systematic empirical research exists addressing the question of how ENGOs use environmental litigation and courts to fill their goals. In this article, we try to observe whether ENGOs have specific goals and specific strategies in trials. We do this on the basis of a unique database consisting of the entire set of environmental cases judged by the French Supreme Court during 1956–2010. We conclude that ENGOs' legal actions encourage compliance with regulation and help solve civil liability failures, especially causal uncertainty and victims' apathy. Finally, we observe that ENGOs act as latent interest groups that become active only under specific circumstances to ask for more stringent regulation. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Enforcement of European Food Laws

Weber

2018

Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU

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Law Reinforcement, Production Pattern and Enterprise Environmental Performance: Evidence from Environmental Courts in China

Law Reinforcement, Production Pattern and Enterprise Environmental Performance: Evidence from Environmental Courts in China

The Role of Engos in Environmental Litigation: A French case study

Enforcement of European Food Laws

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