Environmental regulation and its influence on energy-environmental performance: Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from China's iron and steel industry

Wu, Rongxin; Lin, Boqiang

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105954

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“…Based on the provincial panel data of 30 provinces and municipalities in the Chinese Mainland from 2004 to 2017, this paper explores the overall and regional heterogeneity of the impact of environmental regulations on provincial energy efficiency. Further, the impact mechanism is analyzed through moderating variables of the industrial structure upgrading, the rationalization of industrial structure, and the R&D and innovation investment intensity [11,40]. The basic conclusions are as follows.…”

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“…On the other hand, other scholars use different empirical methods to study the relationship between environmental regulation and energy efficiency through the Chinese Mainland's provincial industry data. The results suggest that environmental regulation has a U-shaped relationship with energy efficiency in different industries of the Chinese Mainland [11,12].…”

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Impact of Environmental Regulations on Energy Efficiency: A Case Study of China’s Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan

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Scientific environmental policies promote energy efficiency improvement by influencing the industrial structure and investment in R&D and innovation. In view of the insufficient impact of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (Action Plan for short) on energy efficiency, this paper takes 30 provinces and municipalities of the Chinese Mainland during 2004–2017 as samples and investigates the impact of China’s Action Plan on energy efficiency as well as the impact path by means of the DID method. This paper finds a significant statistical relationship between the two. The following conclusions are drawn. Firstly, the Action Plan significantly promotes the improvement of provincial energy efficiency. Secondly, the Action Plan has heterogeneous impacts on the energy efficiency in different provinces. This heterogeneity is mainly reflected in the differences in resource endowments and the different intensities of environmental governance in different provinces. Thirdly, the upgrading and rationalization of the industrial structure and the investment in R&D and innovation have significantly different moderating effects on the Action Plan’s impact on energy efficiency. The industrial structure rationalization and the investment in R&D and innovation will enhance the promotion effect of the Action Plan on energy efficiency, while the “quantity” of the industrial structure upgrading will weaken this promotion effect, and the moderating effect of the “quality” of the industrial structure upgrading is not significant.

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Impact of Environmental Regulations on Energy Efficiency: A Case Study of China’s Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan

2022

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“…Tang et al [8] discovered that environmental regulation negatively impacted the efficiency of green enterprise innovation. In the context of global climate change, strengthening environmental regulation is an important tool to achieve sustainable development [9]. According to the Porter hypothesis, environmental regulation facilitates improved economic and environmental performance and promotes corporate innovation [10], achieving a win-win situation for both the economy and the environment, which is the core idea of the Porter hypothesis.…”

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

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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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“…At present, there are many studies on environmental pollution. However, most of the research focus on the impact and control of environmental pollution 5 – 9 , while there are relatively few studies on the treatment of environmental pollution from the perspective of stakeholders by using game theory.Evolutionary games are an application of game theory in the field of biological evolution and are now widely used in economics, management and many other aspects. For example, solving the collective-risk social dilemma 10 ; optimal institutional incentives 11 ; prosocial punishment 12 ; incentives for cooperative governance of risky commons 13 ; and so on.Smith was the first to study evolutionary games 14 .…”

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Evolutionary game analysis of environmental pollution control under the government regulation

Zhou

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Tang³

2022

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This paper studied a tripartite evolutionary game of stakeholders in environmental pollution control. Most previous studies on this issue are limited to a focus on system dynamics with two-party game problems and lack a spatial analysis of strategy evolution. The parameters adopted are too few, and the influencing factors considered are too simple. The purpose of the paper is to introduce more parameters to study, which will have an important impact on the strategy choices of participants and the evolution path of the strategy over time. We construct a tripartite evolutionary game model of sewage enterprises, governments and the public. We establish a payment matrix and replicator equations as our method, and we also implement parameter simulations in MATLAB. In summary, we found that the reward and punishment mechanism plays an important role in environmental pollution control. Specifically: intensifying rewards and penalties will help encourage sewage enterprises to meet the discharge standard and the public to participate in pollution control action. However, increased rewards will reduce government's willingness to adopt incentive strategies; Government's reward for public's participation in the action must be greater than the increased cost of participation; Reducing the cost of sewage enterprise can also encourage them to implement standard emissions. The research presented in this paper further improves standard emissions and designs reasonable reward and punishment mechanism.

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Environmental regulation and its influence on energy-environmental performance: Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis from China's iron and steel industry

Cited by 136 publications

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Impact of Environmental Regulations on Energy Efficiency: A Case Study of China’s Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan

Impact of Environmental Regulations on Energy Efficiency: A Case Study of China’s Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan

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

Evolutionary game analysis of environmental pollution control under the government regulation

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