Bank Liquidity, Credit Supply and the Environment

70 Pages Posted: 28 Dec 2017 Last revised: 20 Jan 2020

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Ross Levine

Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Chen Lin

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics

Zigan Wang

Tsinghua University; The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance; Columbia University

Wensi Xie

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - CUHK Business School

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Date Written: December 27, 2017

Abstract

We evaluate the impact of the credit conditions facing corporations on their emissions of toxic air pollutants. Exploiting cross-county, cross-time shale discoveries that generated liquidity windfalls at local bank branches, we construct measures of (1) the degree to which banks in non-shale counties, i.e., counties where shale was not discovered, receive liquidity shocks through their branches in shale counties and (2) the degree to which a corporation in a non-shale county has a relationship lender that receives liquidity shocks through its branches. From both the county- and firm-level analyses, we discover that positive shocks to credit conditions reduce corporate pollution.

Keywords: Bank Liquidity Gains, Pollution, Toxic Emissions

JEL Classification: G21, Q52, Q53, Q40

Suggested Citation

Levine, Ross and Lin, Chen and Wang, Zigan and Xie, Wensi, Bank Liquidity, Credit Supply and the Environment (December 27, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3093506 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3093506

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Chen Lin

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