Table 15 Life cycle heterogeneity.

From: ESG and green innovation: nonlinear moderation of public attention

VARS

Growth firms

Maturity firms

Decline firms

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

ESG

0.104***

0.0337

0.294*

0.0631***

0.0784

0.221

0.0473***

−0.0266

0.188

(0.0219)

(0.105)

(0.167)

(0.0192)

(0.0947)

(0.140)

(0.0173)

(0.0965)

(0.143)

Public

 

0.0373

0.0446

 

0.0750

0.0725

 

−0.0309

−0.0142

 

(0.0960)

(0.0959)

 

(0.0866)

(0.0865)

 

(0.0875)

(0.0872)

ESGPublic

 

0.0138

0.100*

 

−0.00313

−0.0677

 

0.0150

−0.0765

 

(0.0218)

(0.0598)

 

(0.0199)

(0.0511)

 

(0.0201)

(0.0500)

ESGPublic2

  

−0.0120**

  

0.00707

  

0.00947**

  

(0.00579)

  

(0.00513)

  

(0.00482)

Constant

−3.165***

−3.301***

−3.484***

−3.295***

−3.381***

−3.421***

−3.205***

−3.011***

−3.182***

(0.829)

(0.961)

(0.961)

(0.648)

(0.756)

(0.755)

(0.586)

(0.728)

(0.726)

Observations

757

757

757

966

966

966

945

945

945

R-squared

0.274

0.298

0.302

0.218

0.227

0.228

0.295

0.298

0.302

Controls

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ind

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Year

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

  1. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1. Robust standard errors in parentheses.