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生物多样性风险与企业财务绩效:来自中国上市企业的证据

李伯尧1, 盛天成2, 幸小云2*   

  1. 1. 中国政法大学商学院, 北京 100088 2. 北京林业大学经济管理学院, 北京 100083
  • 收稿日期:2025-08-18 修回日期:2026-02-09 接受日期:2026-04-08
  • 通讯作者: 幸小云
  • 基金资助:
    中国政法大学青年教师学术创新团队支持计划(25CXTD04); 国家自然科学基金应急专项课题(72441011)

Biodiversity Risk and Corporate Financial Performance: Evidence from Listed Companies in China

Boyao Li1, Tiancheng Sheng2, Xiaoyun Xing2*   

  1. 1 Business School, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing 100088, China 

    2 School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

  • Received:2025-08-18 Revised:2026-02-09 Accepted:2026-04-08
  • Contact: Xiaoyun Xing

摘要: 中国作为兼具生态压力与快速发展的新兴经济体,关于生物多样性如何影响企业财务绩效的实证证据仍显不足。基于中国A股上市公司2007-2022年的面板数据,本文创新性地采用生物多样性风险暴露指数和关注指数量化企业层面的风险敞口,系统检验了生物多样性风险对企业资产回报率的影响。研究发现,生物多样性风险显著降低了企业财务绩效,这一结论揭示了生物多样性风险通过推升合规成本与资源再配置压力侵蚀盈利能力的传导机制。这种负面影响存在显著异质性:地理维度上,在市场化程度高、环境规制刚性高的东部地区,风险抑制效应显著强于政策缓冲空间较大的中西部地区;所有制性质维度上,受限于融资约束与政策弱势的非国有企业,其财务脆弱性显著高于国有企业;行业维度上,生物多样性风险的影响和企业应对方式有着显著的差异。同时,产品创新通过重构资源依赖模式被证实为有效的缓解机制。本研究首次在中国情境下,为生物多样性风险影响企业基本面提供了微观证据,并揭示了其传导路径在地理、所有制与行业维度上的异质性,为协调生态文明建设目标与企业可持续发展提供了关键依据,并对完善差异化环境规制政策与创新激励机制具有重要启示。

关键词: 生物多样性风险, 企业财务绩效, 环境规制, 环境附加成本, 异质性

Abstract

Aims: Empirical evidence on how biodiversity risk affects corporate financial performance remains limited in China, an emerging economy facing both ecological pressure and rapid development. 

Methods: Using panel data for Chinese A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2022, this study measures firm-level risk exposure with the Chinese Corporate Biodiversity Exposure index and the Chinese Corporate Biodiversity Concern index to quantify corporate-level risk exposure, and systematically examines the impact of biodiversity risks on corporate asset return rates. 

Results: Biodiversity risks significantly reduce corporate financial performance, highlighting the transmission mechanism through which biodiversity risks erode profitability by increasing compliance costs and resource reallocation pressures. This negative impact exhibits significant heterogeneity: geographically, in the eastern regions with high marketization levels and stringent environmental regulations, the risk suppression effect is significantly stronger than in the central and western regions with greater policy buffer space; In terms of ownership structure, non-state-owned enterprises, constrained by financing limitations and weaker policy support, exhibit significantly higher financial vulnerability than state-owned enterprises; in terms of industry, the impact of biodiversity risks and corporate response strategies exhibit significant differences. Additionally, product innovation plays a mediating role between biodiversity risk and corporate financial performance, potentially exacerbating financial pressure in the short term due to increased innovation investments. 

Conclusions: This study provides the first micro-level evidence of biodiversity risk impacts on corporate fundamentals in the Chinese context, revealing the geographical, ownership structure, and industry heterogeneity of risk transmission. 

Policy implications: This study offers critical insights for aligning ecological civilization goals with corporate sustainability and provides important implications for refining differentiated environmental regulatory policies and innovative incentive mechanisms.

Key words: biodiversity risk, corporate financial performance, environmental regulation, environmental additional costs, heterogeneity