Green Credit Policy and Maturity Mismatch Risk in Polluting and Non-Polluting Companies

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper is interesting, it deals with an extremely important subject regarding the impact of China's green credit policy on the maturity mismatch risk between investment and financing, in polluting and non-polluting companies.

The paper has unquestionable merits, is very detailed, well organized, and uses a solid scientific and logical tool.

I would have some considerations and suggestions for improving the quality of the article.

• The authors did not explicitly develop an analysis of previous contributions on this topic (a systematic literature review), which would further clarify to potential readers the importance of this topic. In fact, the authors bundle no less than 15 major contributions in three sentences (rows 73-86), conceptually correct, but quite plain, and, somewhat, formal;
• Conclusions - What are the limits of the research and how do the authors intend to solve them in future papers? An explanatory sentence in this context, accompanied by the issue of future research topics (as a kind of invitation to academic debate) can help a lot at the end of the article's conclusion.

Formal – minor improvement in text editing - table alignment, excessive free spaces - row 291, final references are partially numbered etc.

 

Thank you for the opportunity to review this article and good luck!

Author Response

Dear Editor:

Thank you very much for your letter and the comments from the advisors about our paper submitted to Sustainability. The manuscript entitled " Green Credit Policy and Maturity Mismatch Risk in Polluting and Non-Polluting Companies " have been revised according to the reviewers’ comments, and we wish it to be reconsidered for publication in Sustainability.

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors,
First of all, I would like to thank Sustainability for inviting me to review this manuscript “ Green Credit Policy and Maturity Mismatch Risk in Polluting and Non-Polluting Companies”.

The article addresses a topic related to Entrepreneurship and Tourism, a current topic of great
interest. It addresses a topic of great importance related to Green Credit Policy.

Overall, the article is well-written, presents a systematic review of the literature with interesting. and presents an interesting case study. The current, relevant, and timely theme for the improvement of scientific area knowledge. The chosen methods are appropriate and correspond to the research questions. The article is well-structured.

However, I would recommend the following improvements for the study:

1- Overall, the literature review is comprehensive and written with sufficient support. (even though will need some minor corrections concerning quotations and references);

2- Improve the formatting quality of some of the tables;

3- in the literature review it is suggested to include a summary of other studies, compiling the applied methodology and the main conclusions;

4- the methods should be more detailed from a statistical point of view and suggested greater support in the applied methodology, as well as a better definition and formatting of the research questions, detailing in a formal and objective way so that the reader clearly understands the research questions~;

5- It is suggested that in the discussion of the results a comparison be made with other studies

6- Presented in the state of the art, carrying out a comparative discussion with the literature review. The study presents a good discussion of the results but lacks a better comparative discussion with the results of similar studies;

7- Although the previous point arises a discussion of the results, it is suggested that the conclusion develops the conclusions, namely the answer to the three research questions, the main conclusions of the discussion of the results, and future directions of research.


Thank you for the opportunity and good luck to the authors.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your letter and the comments from the advisors about our paper submitted to Sustainability. The manuscript entitled " Green Credit Policy and Maturity Mismatch Risk in Polluting and Non-Polluting Companies " have been revised according to the reviewers’ comments, and we wish it to be reconsidered for publication in Sustainability.

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Authors,

I have carefully read your manuscript entitled “Green Credit Policy and Maturity Mismatch Risk in Polluting and Non-Polluting Companies". Studied issues are really valuable, suitable to journal aims and scope. 

I believe, the paper needs only minor revision to be acceptable to publish..

Key words: Consider change keywords. They are in the title.

Table 3: Is it possible to improve Definition section to be more clear/legible?

Author Response

Thank you very much for your letter and the comments from the advisors about our paper submitted to Sustainability. The manuscript entitled " Green Credit Policy and Maturity Mismatch Risk in Polluting and Non-Polluting Companies " have been revised according to the reviewers’ comments, and we wish it to be reconsidered for publication in Sustainability.

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