This study uses A-share listed companies' financial data in China's Shanghai Stock Exchange from 2010 to 2019 to examine the impact of environmental uncertainty and financing constraints on corporate investment. It is found that environmental uncertainty not only restrains corporate investment directly but also reduces corporate investment through increased financing constraints indirectly. This negative effect is even more obvious in small-scale enterprises. Further research finds that environmental uncertainty has a heterogeneous impact on corporate investment efficiency. While inhibiting overinvested corporate investment behaviour and improving their investment efficiency, higher environmental uncertainty will reduce underinvested corporate investment and worsen their investment efficiency.
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Lingnan Univ, Dept Finance & Insurance, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, Peoples R ChinaLingnan Univ, Dept Finance & Insurance, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
Firth, Michael
Malatesta, Paul H.
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Univ Washington, Dept Finance, Michael G Foster Sch Business, Seattle, WA 98195 USALingnan Univ, Dept Finance & Insurance, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
Malatesta, Paul H.
Xin, Qingquan
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Chongqing Univ, Sch Econ & Business Adm, Chongqing 630044, Peoples R ChinaLingnan Univ, Dept Finance & Insurance, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
Xin, Qingquan
Xu, Liping
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Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Business, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China
Sun Yat Sen Univ, Ctr Accounting Finance & Inst, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R ChinaLingnan Univ, Dept Finance & Insurance, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
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Chongqing Univ, Sch Econ & Business Adm, Chongqing 400044, Peoples R ChinaChongqing Univ, Sch Econ & Business Adm, Chongqing 400044, Peoples R China
Huang, Lingyun
Lei, Zhuojun
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Chongqing Univ, Sch Econ & Business Adm, Chongqing 400044, Peoples R ChinaChongqing Univ, Sch Econ & Business Adm, Chongqing 400044, Peoples R China
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South China Univ Technol, Sch Business Adm, Wushan Rd, Guangzhou 510641, Peoples R ChinaSouth China Univ Technol, Sch Business Adm, Wushan Rd, Guangzhou 510641, Peoples R China