Environmental regulation and export sophistication impact on Chinese firms: a global value chain perspective

Wang, Xuewei; Ahmad, Fayyaz; Wang, Jie; Luo, Hongzhen; Chandio, Abbas Ali; Khan, Salim

doi:10.1007/s10668-023-04070-7

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“…In the existing literature related to export technological complexity, scholars generally focus on how to measure export technological complexity and which factors influence changes in export technological complexity. The following key research points have emerged: regarding the measurement of export technological complexity, it could be calculated by summing up the amount of R&D investment in exported products (Mbanyele and Wang 2022;Wang et al 2023). However, this method is challenging because data on R&D investment at the product level is difficult to obtain.…”

Section: Environmental Regulation Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The results showed a positive promotion effect of foreign investment on China's export product technological complexity, while domestic investment in processing trade exhibited a negative impact relationship. Regarding the factors influencing export technological complexity, scholars generally agree that increases in foreign direct investment (Hausmann et al 2007) and improvements in human capital and R&D investment will drive the growth of export technological complexity through spillover effects (Mbanyele and Wang 2022;Wang et al 2023).…”

Section: Environmental Regulation Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In conclusion, the summarization of the main literature related to environmental regulation indicators is listed in Table 2. The crowding out of innovation funds hinders technological progress and the increase in the technological complexity of high-tech industries in manufacturing (Duflo et al 2018;Yang et al 2020aYang et al , 2020b As environmental regulation policies evolve, the unfavorable impacts on enterprise production caused by increased policy intensity gradually diminish (Mbanyele and Wang 2022;Song et al 2023;Xu 2023) The environmental regulation policies further enhances the competitiveness of high-tech products, forming a green competitive advantage in high-tech products (Bigerna et al 2019;Yang et al 2022a) Constructing a comprehensive-indicator system composed of multiple indicators to measure the implementation intensity of environmental regulation policies in different regions; (Wu et al 2022) Explore the impact of industrial intelligence on export technology complexity from different dimensions (Hausmann et al 2007;Mbanyele and Wang 2022;Wang et al 2023) Increasing foreign direct investment and improvements in human capital and R&D investment will drive the growth of export technological complexity through spillover effects…”

Section: Environmental Regulation Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…China is currently the world's top-ranking manufacturing power, possessing strong advantages in terms of variety and scale of its manufacturing industry (Hering and Poncet 2014;Kee and Tang 2016;Wang et al 2022Wang et al , 2023. However, the technological level of China's manufacturing industry is not high, with low product added value, and it faces challenges such as insufficient innovation and Western developed countries holding a grip on core technologies (Ahn et al 2011;Kee and Tang 2016;Yang et al 2024;Yang et al 2022c).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Impact of Environmental Regulation on Export Technological Complexity of High-Tech Industries in Chinese Manufacturing

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Since the reform and opening-up, China has developed into the world’s number one manufacturing country. Meanwhile, China’s environmental protection efforts continue to strengthen. So, will changes in the intensity of environmental regulatory policies have an impact on the technological development level and international competitiveness of China’s high-tech manufacturing industries? In response to this issue, we have reviewed relevant research in the field of environmental regulation and export technology complexity, and then selected appropriate indicators to quantify the environmental regulation and export technology complexity of high-tech manufacturing industries in different regions of China. Furthermore, the entropy method was used to calculate the intensity of environmental regulations in different regions of China. In the subsequent empirical analysis, based on relevant indicator data from 30 provinces in China, excluding Tibet, from 2006 to 2021, we quantitatively analyzed the impact of China’s environmental regulations on the complex export technology of high-tech manufacturing industries. The degree of influence and the robustness of the benchmark regression results was proved through endogeneity testing and robustness testing. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) from 2006 to 2021, China’s environmental regulation intensity and the technological complexity of high-tech industry exports have shown an upward trend. (2) The empirical analysis results show that the increase in intensity has a significant “U-shaped” impact on the technological complexity of exports of high-tech manufacturing industries. (3) The “U-shaped” impact of environmental regulation on the technological complexity of exports of high-tech manufacturing industries has regional differences. However, the high-tech manufacturing industry does not show obvious industry differences. (4) Environmental regulations will affect the level of export technology complexity of the high-tech manufacturing industry through foreign direct investment, human capital, and innovative R D investment, which cause indirect effects. Based on those conclusions, this paper has suggested corresponding policy measures and future research directions.

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Section: Environmental Regulation Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%