Table 5 Mediating effects test.

From: The impact of peer effect of industrial robot application on enterprise carbon emission reduction

Variables

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

med1

lnco2

med2

lnco2

lnexposure_mean1

0.051***

− 0.032***

  

(0.019)

(0.010)

  

med1

 

− 0.019*

  
 

(0.010)

  

lnexposure_mean2

  

0.008***

− 0.022*

  

(0.002)

(0.012)

med2

   

− 0.268**

   

(0.125)

lnlabour

0.102***

0.001

− 0.002

− 0.002

(0.036)

(0.026)

(0.005)

(0.035)

lnsize

0.116***

− 0.030

− 0.001

− 0.032

(0.042)

(0.027)

(0.005)

(0.031)

lnage

− 0.001

0.033

0.020

− 0.000

(0.098)

(0.057)

(0.013)

(0.065)

cashflow

0.147

0.464***

− 0.019

0.434***

(0.160)

(0.105)

(0.019)

(0.100)

roa

0.285*

− 0.595***

− 0.055***

− 0.492***

(0.158)

(0.093)

(0.021)

(0.109)

soe

− 0.090

0.087*

0.001

0.101*

(0.093)

(0.051)

(0.007)

(0.054)

_cons

− 3.186***

6.345***

0.015

6.488***

(0.799)

(0.459)

(0.079)

(0.488)

Obs

7267

7267

7267

7267

Firm/year

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

R-squared

0.051

0.042

0.056

0.035

  1. ***, **, and * indicate significance levels of 1%, 5%, and 10%, respectively, with robust standard errors in brackets.