Can environmental regulations break down domestic market segmentation? Evidence from China

Lai, Aolin; Yang, Zhihui; Cui, Lianbiao

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-16387-9

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“…Industrial structure upgrading refers to a process in which traditional high-energyconsuming and highly polluting secondary industries are gradually replaced with lowenergy-consuming tertiary industries, such as the technology and service industries, which enables economic development while reducing environmental pollution and carbon emissions, thus promoting the improvement of regional green development performance [11,23]. First, the upgrading of this industrial structure promotes resource allocation optimization, thus making full use of these resources to reduce environmental pollution [24].…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is expressed by extracting the proportion of the frequency of words involving environmental protection in the work reports released by each urban government (environmental word frequency specifically includes air, PM10, PM2.5, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, low carbon, emission reduction, emissions, pollution, environmental protection, ecology, green, and energy consumption.) in China from 2006-2019, to the total number of full-text words, to indicate the strength of the environmental regulation of local governments [11]. (5) Openness to the outside world (oul).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(6) Technology Innovation Level (lnsqt). This is expressed by using the logarithm of the number of patent applications [11]. (7) Government regulation ability (gov).…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regional innovation efficiency can be significantly improved through regional cooperation [10]. Therefore, most argue that green economic growth can be significantly promoted by eliminating market segmentation, and that its mechanism of action not only accelerates the cross-regional free flow of factors to optimize resource allocation, but also reduces regional industrial isomorphism, promoting industrial structure upgrading and thus increasing the TFP, which, in turn, promotes green economic growth [11,12]. Hence, can market segmentation affect the green development performance through industrial structure optimization and resource allocation with these factors?…”

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Market Segmentation and Green Development Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Dong

Liang

et al. 2023

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This study is based on 2006–2019 panel data from 282 Chinese cities. Market segmentation and green development performance are empirically investigated to examine their non-linear relationship using static panel, dynamic panel, and dynamic spatial panel models. The results reveal the following: (1) Green development performance is found to have a high degree of temporal and spatial path dependence, exhibiting spatial linkage between cities. (2) Market segmentation stemming from local government protection has a clear inverted U-shaped structure in relationship with the green development performance. (3) Our analysis suggests that the upgrading of industrial structures significantly enhances green development, while factor price distortion inhibits it. The relationship between market segmentation and industrial structure upgrading is also an inverted U-shape. (4) The analysis further reveals that market segmentation has an inverted U-shaped correlation with the green development performance in western, central, and eastern cities. However, the different rates of development of industrial structures within the three regions result in varying degrees of market segmentation according to inflection point values. Moreover, aligned with the theoretical hypothesis of “resource curse,” in resource-based cities (exclusively), market segmentation still affects the green development performance with a significant inverted U-shaped structure.

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Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

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“…(6) Technology Innovation Level (lnsqt). This is expressed by using the logarithm of the number of patent applications [11]. (7) Government regulation ability (gov).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Market Segmentation and Green Development Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

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“…Firms in different industries also have differences in factor allocation, organizational management and pollution emissions (Lai et al, 2022). We divide the firms into firms in heavy polluting industries and firms in non-heavy polluting industries.…”

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Does market integration promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China

Lin

Chen

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Understanding how to improve green technology innovation is critical to addressing environmental pollution and climate change. Using data from the annual reports of Chinese listed manufacturing firms from 2002 to 2018, this paper investigates the impact of market integration on firms’ green technology innovation. The research design relies on the instrumental variable approach. The results show that both commodity market integration and factor market integration can significantly promote green technology innovation. However, heterogeneity exists across regions, ownership systems, and industry types. Exploring the mechanisms, we find that commodity market integration affects firms’ green technology innovation mainly by expanding market size, intensifying market competition, and promoting technology spillovers. Factor market integration influences firm green technology innovation by optimizing resource allocation and reducing government intervention.

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Environmental regulation, corporate strategy and trade costs: a regression discontinuity in time design

Zou

2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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Can environmental regulations break down domestic market segmentation? Evidence from China

Cited by 12 publications

References 46 publications

Market Segmentation and Green Development Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Market Segmentation and Green Development Performance: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Does market integration promote green technology innovation? Evidence from China

Environmental regulation, corporate strategy and trade costs: a regression discontinuity in time design

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