The spillover effect of investment incentives on corporate social responsibility: Firm responses to accelerated depreciation

This paper aims to explain the causal relationship between accelerated depreciation policy (ADP), a worldwide used tax incentive, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. We employ China's ADP as a quasi-natural experiment and use a difference-in-differences (DID) specification to...

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Published in:Journal of cleaner production 2023-01, Vol.385, p.135647, Article 135647
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