Tianjin University Researchers Report on Findings in Public Health (Environmental Pollution Liability Insurance of Health Risk and Corporate Environmental Performance: Evidence From China): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2022 JUL 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on public health. According to news originating from Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Environmental pollution liability insurance (EPLI) is a type of insurance purchased by an enterprise to compensate the loss of the victims in the event of an environmental pollution incident.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Social Science Fund of China.

Our news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Tianjin University: “Although EPLI can realize the post-treatment of environmental pollution to a certain extent, there is still less understanding of whether EPLI can improve the environmental performance of enterprises. This study takes A-share listed companies in heavily polluting industries as the research object, determines the treatment group samples according to the Insurance coverage list published by the Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2014 and 2015, and then constructs the empirical test model. In order to ensure that there is no sample selection bias, the PSM method is used to preprocess the samples in this study to ensure the robustness of the conclusions. The empirical tests show that EPLI can significantly improve corporate environmental performance. Further analysis showed that higher public visibility is conducive to the positive environmental effects of EPLI. Compared with state-owned enterprises, non-state-owned enterprises have more significant implementation effects after introducing EPLI.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “On further examination, the result indicates that environmental pollution liability insurance can improve environmental performance by alleviating corporate financing constraints. The findings of this paper enrich the theory of the economic impact of environmental pollution liability insurance, which has some meaningful theoretical guidance for enterprises and policy makers.”

For more information on this research see: Environmental Pollution Liability Insurance of Health Risk and Corporate Environmental Performance: Evidence From China. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022,10. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health). The publisher for Frontiers in Public Health is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.897386.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Wenqing Wu, College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Pianpian Zhang, Dongyang Zhu, Xin Jiang, Mihajlo Jakovljevic. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.