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Gauging the extent of consumers' willingness to choose electric vehicles rather than conventional vehicles has become increasingly important. Based on the push–pull–mooring framework, this study aims to examine how these three factors influence consumers' intention to shift from conventional vehicles to electric vehicles. Based on 886 validated questionnaires from six pilot cities, findings reveal that push factors such as price consciousness and social influence are effective in convincing consumers to switch from conventional vehicles to electric ones. Moreover, pull factors, including perceived benefit and convenience, attract consumers to switch to EVs. In line with our expectations, mooring factors such as perceived risk and inertia have a negative effect on consumers' switching intentions. Furthermore, perceived risk and inertia significantly reduce the positive effect of push and pull factors on consumers' switching intentions. These findings provide important implications for China's transition to low-carbon transportation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) has a significant effect on firm decisions, especially corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure. This research examines the impact of EPU on corporate ESG disclosure, and tests whether this effect can be influenced by financing constraints and internal control using a sample of A-share listed firms in China from 2011 to 2019. The empirical results show that EPU positively affects corporate ESG disclosure. The positive impact of EPU on ESG disclosure is stronger at higher levels of financing constraints and internal control. The heterogeneity analysis further reveals that the positive effect of EPU on corporate ESG disclosure is more significant in state-owned enterprises, heavily polluting firms and those with a higher degree of marketization and industry competition. In times of rising EPU, firms will actively disclose ESG information to mitigate business management risks and reduce negative economic benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to explore the relationship between different electric vehicle (EV) information sources and consumers’ psychological perceptions and purchase intentions for EVs. Based on the survey data from 1,311 respondents in pilot cities, the analysis results show that authority and peer sources are positively associated with economic, psychological, and environmental benefits and negatively correlated with financial, performance, and physical safety risks. Moreover, media sources are positively associated with the psychological and environmental benefits of EVs but negatively related to performance and physical safety risks. Beyond our expectation, media sources lack significant impact on financial risk and economic benefit. Furthermore, financial, performance, and physical safety risks are negatively associated with purchase intention; whereas psychological and economic benefits are positively related to purchase intention. Unfortunately, the relationship between environmental benefit and purchase intention has not been confirmed. Additionally, policy recommendations for the further promotion of EVs are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using panel data for Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2015, this research examines the impact of the green credit policy on the audit fees of heavily polluting firms by adopting a difference-in-difference (DID) model. The results show that the green credit policy increases the audit fees of heavily polluting firms, suggesting that auditors can perceive the risks imposed by the green credit policy on heavily polluting firms. Mechanism tests reveal that the implementation of the green credit policy increases audit fees by increasing the financing cost and reducing the loan maturity. Further research shows that the positive effect is more significant in regions with stronger regulatory environments and higher trust, and among firms without political connections and audited by the top-ten domestic audit firms. The Chinese government should actively encourage third-party financial institutions to participate in firms' environmental governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To deal with environmental deterioration issues, various regulations and laws have been implemented by the Chinese government, including disclosing environmental governance information to the public to increase environmental transparency. This has not only affected the environmental governance performance but also residents' subjective well-being. This research aims to investigate whether, how and when government environmental governance information disclosure affects residents' subjective well-being in China. Data were gathered from 537 respondents and the analysis revealed that government environmental governance information disclosure exerts a significantly positive effect on residents' subjective well-being, mainly by reducing risk perception and improving perceived controllability. Furthermore, the result found that the positive influence of government environmental governance information disclosure on residents' subjective well-being depends on information credibility. Information credibility strengthens the effect of government environmental governance information disclosure. According to the findings, relevant recommendations to perfect government environmental governance information disclosure and improve residents' subjective well-being were provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study attempted to investigate the impact of business strategy on corporate environmental information disclosure. We further explored whether the relationship between business strategy and environmental information disclosure is moderated by CEO power, industry competition, and government regulation. The research sample consisted of 1,530 firms listed in Chinese Stock "A" markets from the year 2013 to 2017. The results indicated that firms adopting prospector business strategy tend to disclose more environmental information. Besides, the relationship between business strategy and environmental information disclosure is strengthened when the CEO has more power, firms located in moderately competitive industries, and firms face more rigorous government regulation. Overall, this study provides specific policy implications for regulatory agencies and suggestions for the sustainable development of firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to investigate the effect of enterprise digital transformation on green investment based on data from Chinese A-share listed enterprises from 2008 to 2021. The result suggests that enterprise digital transformation has a significant contribution to green investment, and this finding still holds after a series of robustness tests. Digital transformation promotes green investment by improving internal control quality, increasing information transparency and ESG performance. We further find that the differences in firm characteristics and external environment also make the impact of digital transformation on enterprise green investment varied. Specifically, the promotion effect of digital transformation on green investment is greater in enterprises with low financing constraints, low risk enterprises and enterprises in the growth stage, and also greater in regions with developed digital financial inclusion and high government support and strong environmental regulation. Our findings provide empirical insights for understanding how enterprises engage in environmental governance in the context of rapidly growing digital economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]