Can environmental regulation stimulate the regional Porter effect? Double test from quasi-experiment and dynamic panel data models

Nie, Xin; Wu, Jianxian; Chen, Zhoupeng; An-lu, Zhang; Wang, Han

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128027

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“…In order to make up the gap between private cost and social cost, the government usually uses environmental control, allocation of emission rights, and other policies to internalize external costs (Wang and Shen, 2016). However, the policies are constrained by information asymmetry, which makes the policy effect often lower-than-expected (Nie et al, 2021). The root cause of information asymmetry is the low efficiency of updating pollutant emission information of industrial enterprises.…”

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Can Environmental Information Disclosure Improve Urban Green Economic Efficiency? New Evidence From the Mediating Effects Model

Lin

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Environmental information disclosure is one of the important ways to realize urban sustainable development. This study explores the transmission mechanism between environmental information disclosure and urban green economic efficiency (UGEE) and solves the “black box” system between them. In this method, first, the urban green economic efficiency is calculated using the data envelopment analysis model with undesirable output. Second, the panel data model and the mediating effects model are employed to test the impact of environmental information disclosure on urban green economic efficiency and the possible mediating variables. The main conclusions of this study are as follows: 1) Environmental information disclosure significantly improves urban green economic efficiency, and reducing industrial pollutant emission and improving technological innovation are the significant transmission mechanisms. (2) There is a U-shaped curve relationship between environmental information disclosure and urban green economic efficiency and environmental information disclosure and technological innovation. On the contrary, there is an inverted U-shaped curve relationship between environmental information disclosure and industrial pollutant emission. 3) Environmental information disclosure has a greater sustainability effect in industrial cities. The conclusion shows that environmental information disclosure can improve the efficiency of urban green economy by improving the ability of urban technological innovation and reducing the emission of industrial pollutants. Environmental information disclosure plays a role of “restraining first and then promoting” to sustainable development. This research provides a reference for how to lessen information asymmetry and reduce negative externalities in the formulation of environmental regulatory policies.

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Section: Research Hypothesismentioning

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Can Environmental Information Disclosure Improve Urban Green Economic Efficiency? New Evidence From the Mediating Effects Model

Lin

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Local officials who are sensitive to environmental protection policies will be more willing to implement the relevant measures, which will be reflected in the level of ER. Referring to Nie’s logic for measuring environmental regulations ( Nie et al, 2021 ), the steps in this paper to measure ER are as follows.…”

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How Officials’ Competitive Pressure Affects Sustainable Development Capacity From a Spatial Perspective: Empirical Evidence From China

Wang

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The view of political achievements suggests that officials will prefer to implement measures that benefit their own development in order to seek promotions. In the past, GDP weighed heavily in officials’ appraisals, leading them to develop the economy without regard to sustainability. Now that the central government has incorporated environmental indicators into the officials’ appraisal system, will this lead officials to implement sustainable development strategies to the fullest extent? Are there spillover effects and regional heterogeneity in this role? This paper discusses these questions with the help of entropy method and a spatial Durbin model using data of 30 provincial-level regions in China from 2006 to 2016. The conclusions show that, firstly, the officials’ competitive pressure is beneficial to enhance the sustainable development capacity of the province, but this effect is only effective in western China. Secondly, there is no spillover effect of officials’ competitive pressure on sustainable development capacity; thirdly, foreign direct investment, the proportion of state-owned enterprises and environmental regulations have their own unique effects on sustainable development capacity, and there are spillover effects. Based on these findings, this paper proposes corresponding policy recommendations in terms of officials’ appraisal system, talent training, foreign investment introduction, and state-owned enterprise reform.

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“…When using DID method, the impact of China's carbon emissions trading pilot policy on firms' green innovation was explored, which was found to significantly inhibit innovation [38]. Nie et al [16] constructed a quasi-natural experiment using China's carbon emissions trading pilot policy and found that environmental regulation failed to stimulate regional Porter effects.…”

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“…Environmental regulation (ER): Investment in pollution treatment projects is necessary to offset the environmental impact caused by industrial pollution emissions [61]. Most academics represent environmental regulation through the costs incurred by environmental treatment; therefore, the volume of pollution treatment investment is widely used as a measure of the intensity of environmental regulation [15,16]. The present paper uses the volume of a completed investment in industrial pollution control as a measure of environmental regulation.…”

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“…It has also been found that the Porter hypothesis is only supported in eastern China, but neither in central nor in western China [15]. In contrast, from carbon emissions trading pilot perspective, Nie et al [16] found that the Porter effect cannot exist at the regional level in China. In summary, it remains uncertain whether the Porter hypothesis can be applied to China and its different regions, and the mechanisms underlying the pathways toward achieving the Porter hypothesis need to be identified.…”

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Booster or Stumbling Block? The Role of Environmental Regulation in the Coupling Path of Regional Innovation under the Porter Hypothesis

Nie

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In the 2018 Global Environmental Performance Index, China’s global air quality rank was fourth from last, indicating a more pronounced conflict between the environment and development compared with other countries. Because of the vastness of China’s land area, the development of different regions is imbalanced. The achievement of the stipulated goal to be among the top innovative countries in the world by 2035 not only depends on the economically developed eastern part of China but also on the relatively economically underdeveloped central, western, and northeastern parts. In this context, this paper uses time-varying qualitative comparative analysis to explore how the coupling paths of environmental regulation affect regional innovation. The results show that: (1) In most cases at the overall level of China, the Porter hypothesis is supported, and environmental regulation can play the role of a “booster” and stimulate regional innovation. In a few cases, however, the Porter hypothesis is not supported. (2) The Porter hypothesis is also supported in most cases at the regional level, where environmental regulation is mostly a “booster” for regional innovation in the east, center, west, and northeast. (3) Comparison of regional heterogeneity shows that environmental regulation is more important for stimulating regional innovation in the east than in the center, west, and northeast. This study helps to identify the role of environmental regulation in regional innovation. Moreover, it also helps to understand the emphasis China placed on environmental management during the early stages of its economic development.

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Can environmental regulation stimulate the regional Porter effect? Double test from quasi-experiment and dynamic panel data models

Cited by 64 publications

References 55 publications

Can Environmental Information Disclosure Improve Urban Green Economic Efficiency? New Evidence From the Mediating Effects Model

Can Environmental Information Disclosure Improve Urban Green Economic Efficiency? New Evidence From the Mediating Effects Model

How Officials’ Competitive Pressure Affects Sustainable Development Capacity From a Spatial Perspective: Empirical Evidence From China

Booster or Stumbling Block? The Role of Environmental Regulation in the Coupling Path of Regional Innovation under the Porter Hypothesis

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