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Effect of green credit policy on shadow banking activities: entrusted loan evidence from Chinese listed firms

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  • Xi Gu
  • Sijia Qiao
  • Shihan Du

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This paper investigates whether green credit policy can mitigate firms’ financialization. Using data from Chinese non-financial public listed firms during 2008 to 2019, we take the green credit policy promulgated in 2012 as a quasi-natural experiment and find that: (1) the green credit policy can reduce firms’ entrusted loans, especially affiliated entrusted loans. Moreover, the governance effect exerted by banks’ green credit policy reduces free cash flow and excess cash in heavily polluting firms, as shown in mechanism analysis. (2) The profit-seeking incentive dominates shadow banking activities in heavily polluting enterprises. (3) The 2012 green credit guidelines reduce entrusted loans maturity but increase the interest rate. The findings of this paper provide market-oriented insights into the regulation of shadow banking activities. This research also contributes to the literature on the effects of green credit policy by exploring their impact on firm shadow banking activities, and takes one step further to investigate the effect of green credit policy on firms’ entrusted loans. This paper also sheds light on how green credit policy can alleviate the imperfections and distortions of financial markets in the emerging market.

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  • Xi Gu & Sijia Qiao & Shihan Du, 2024. "Effect of green credit policy on shadow banking activities: entrusted loan evidence from Chinese listed firms," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 67(2), pages 309-333, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:67:y:2024:i:2:p:309-333
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2022.2113046
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