arXiv:2504.07733cs.CLecon.GN2025-04中稿 · Computational Econ…被引 6

用大模型识别企业环保伪善,发现骗罚关系并预警高风险公司

DeepGreen: Effective LLM-Driven Greenwashing Monitoring System Designed for Empirical Testing -- Evidence from China

  • 双阶段大模型系统从年报中抓取绿色伪装信号
  • 发现环保伪装与环境处罚正相关,且结果经多重检验稳健
  • 适合政策监管者和可持续投资机构参考

受大语言模型在经济管理研究中应用兴起的启发,本文探究大模型能否可靠识别企业环保伪善叙事,以及这些文本提取的绿色伪装信号是否可用于实证分析因果效应。为此,本文提出DeepGreen——一种双阶段大模型驱动系统,用于检测年报中的潜在企业绿色伪装行为。该系统应用于2021至2023年间发布的9369份A股年报,在随机样本验证中两阶段均表现高可靠性。消融实验表明,检索增强生成(RAG)相比单纯延长输入窗口更有效减少幻觉。实证分析显示,DeepGreen捕捉到的“绿色伪装”能有效揭示其与环境处罚之间的正向关系,且通过工具变量法(IV)、倾向得分匹配(PSM)及安慰剂测试,进一步增强了证据的稳健性与因果性。进一步研究表明,绿色投资者的存在及其数量可弱化绿色伪装与处罚间的正相关关系。异质性分析显示,大型企业和拥有较多绿色资产的企业中,绿色伪装与处罚的关系较弱,暗示这些绿色资产可能成为绿色伪装的可信背书。研究结果表明,大模型可通过早期预警实现ESG监督的标准化,并引导监管资源聚焦于更需关注的企业群体。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Motivated by the emerging adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in economics and management research, this paper investigates whether LLMs can reliably identify corporate greenwashing narratives and, more importantly, whether and how the greenwashing signals extracted from textual disclosures can be used to empirically identify causal effects. To this end, this paper proposes DeepGreen, a dual-stage LLM-Driven system for detecting potential corporate greenwashing in annual reports. Applied to 9369 A-share annual reports published between 2021 and 2023, DeepGreen attains high reliability in random-sample validation at both stages. Ablation experiment shows that Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) reduces hallucinations, as compared to simply lengthening the input window. Empirical tests indicate that "greenwashing" captured by DeepGreen can effectively reveal a positive relationship between greenwashing and environmental penalties, and IV, PSM, Placebo test, which enhance the robustness and causal effects of the empirical evidence. Further study suggests that the presence and number of green investors can weaken the positive correlation between greenwashing and penalties. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the positive relationship between "greenwashing - penalty" is less significant in large-sized corporations and corporations that have accumulated green assets, indicating that these green assets may be exploited as a credibility shield for greenwashing. Our findings demonstrate that LLMs can standardize ESG oversight by early warning and direct regulators' scarce attention toward the subsets of corporations where monitoring is more warranted.

大模型应用绿色伪装实证分析监管科技

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