How CEO foreign experience affects corporate environmental violations: the role of enhanced environmental ethics and general competency

Using data from heavy-polluting firms listed in China, we examine the relationship between CEO foreign experience and corporate environmental violation. Our data are based on heavy-polluting firms listed on Chinese exchanges, the main body of environmental polluters and environmental violations in China. Environmental violation data are manually collected from the PKULaw database, an online legal database maintained by the Peking University Legal Information Center. We hand-collect the CEO's foreign experience data from the firms’ annual reports. Other data are all from the CSMAR database and the CNRDS Platform database, two leading financial data providers in China. After setting global paths as per the root setting instructions, proceed to run the code.do file following the sequence provided in the project directory. This process will guide the execution through each phase of the analysis.