The effect of corruption exposure on the ESG performance of multinational firms 1 1 We greatly appreciate the valuable feedback from the editor Hui Guo. John Fan Zhang is an assistant professor and Jacky Yuk-chow So is the Chair Professor, both authors are at the Macau University of Science and Technology. We also deeply appreciate helpful discussions with and suggestions from Ku He, Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, Chi-Yang Tsou, K. C. John Wei, Shuya Xue, Lisheng Yu, Qianjin Zhang, and seminar participants at the 5th CCGAR Research Camp on Auditing and Accounting, and the 2022 International Conference on Climate and Energy Finance (ICEF), the 2023 CFRI&CIRF Joint Conference, and the 17th NYCU International Finance Conference & 3rd Yushan Conference. This paper is awarded as the best paper at the 2022 ICEF conference. The paper was circulated with the title “Local corruption: A cultural explanation of corporate social responsibility of multinational firms”. This paper is supported by the Macau University of Science and Technology Foundation, funding number: FRG-23-040-MSB. All errors are the authors' responsibility.
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The effect of corruption exposure on the ESG performance of multinational firms 1 1 We greatly appreciate the valuable feedback from the editor Hui Guo. John Fan Zhang is an assistant professor and Jacky Yuk-chow So is the Chair Professor, both authors are at the Macau University of Science and Technology. We also deeply appreciate helpful discussions with and suggestions from Ku He, Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, Chi-Yang Tsou, K. C. John Wei, Shuya Xue, Lisheng Yu, Qianjin Zhang, and seminar participants at the 5th CCGAR Research Camp on Auditing and Accounting, and the 2022 International Conference on Climate and Energy Finance (ICEF), the 2023 CFRI&CIRF Joint Conference, and the 17th NYCU International Finance Conference & 3rd Yushan Conference. This paper is awarded as the best paper at the 2022 ICEF conference. The paper was circulated with the title “Local corruption: A cultural explanation of corporate social responsibility of multinational firms”. This paper is supported by the Macau University of Science and Technology Foundation, funding number: FRG-23-040-MSB. All errors are the authors' responsibility.