Environmental pressure in supply chains: pass-through effects on R&D and innovation
Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) at 12:30 - 14:00
Location: Meade Room, Faculty of Economics
Join our climaTRACES workshop with Hongyu Nian, Postdoctoral Researcher, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Environmental p… Environmental p… 11 Jun 2026 12:30 -14:00 Times shown in local time Open to: All Meade Room, Faculty of Economics Austin Robinson Building Sidgwick Avenue United Kingdom Category: climaTRACES Lab events Economics and Policy seminar series Research seminars Speaker: Hongyu Nian, postdoctoral researcher, Shanghai Jiao Tong University This paper investigates the pass-through of environmental compliance costs along supply chains. We compile a firm-level dataset linking regulated firms in pollution-intensive industries with their top 5 clients and suppliers. We find that clients of regulated firms invest less in R&D, employ fewer skilled R&D staff and produce fewer innovations
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