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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no7.159

CSR Impact on the Firm Market Value: Evidence from Tour and Travel Companies Listed on Chinese Stock Markets  

LEE, Jung Wan (School of International Economics and Trade, Anhui University of Finance and Economics)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.7, no.7, 2020 , pp. 159-167 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study examines the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity on the firm market value, in particular, market capitalization of tour operators listed on Chinese stock markets. This study employs panel data analysis methods to examine endogeneity concerns in observational data. The balanced panel data includes a total of 1,296 observations with 27 cross-sections of tour operators listed on Chinese stock markets and with 48 time-specific periods from March 2006 to December 2017. The results indicate that CSR activity has a negative impact on the market value of the firm for the concurrent period, but from one-period time lag and afterwards CSR activity has a strong positive impact on the market value and sustains its positive impact on the market value even for a two-period time lag. The findings suggest that the economic effect of CSR activity on the firm market value tends to take some degree of lagged effects to be fully showcased in the market capitalization of tour operators and travel companies listed on Chinese stock markets. The findings suggest that, though CSR activity may carry some financial risk for an immediate short-term, tour operators must put a lot of time and effort into making CSR actions effective.
Keywords
Corporate Social Responsibility; Business Economics; Time Lag; Market Value; Market Capitalization; Tour and Travel; China;
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