Related party transactions and corporate environmental responsibility

Wonseok Choi, Chune Young Chung, Monika K. Rabarison, Kainan Wang

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Abstract

We examine the effect of related party transactions on corporate environmental responsibility and find that firms with more related party transactions tend to have more controversial environmental reports, less emissions reduction, and less environmental expenditures. This relationship is more significant for firms with a high investment-cash flow sensitivity and those with a low ESG score. Overall, the results corroborate the hypothesis that the marginal costs of corporate environmental responsibility outweigh the benefits for financially constrained firms, thus deterring these firms from engaging in corporate environmental responsibility activities.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102490
JournalFinance Research Letters
Volume46
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2022

Keywords

  • Corporate environmental responsibility
  • Corporate governance
  • Internal capital market
  • Pollution emission
  • Related party transaction

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