How does environmental regulation influence China’s carbon productivity? An empirical analysis based on the spatial spillover effect

Hu, Wei; Wang, Di

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120484

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“…Furthermore, this study only employed a conventional econometric method, further research would take spatial spillover effects into consideration. The exploration of spatial spillover effects is conducive to the in-depth study of the driving forces behind CO2 emissions (Feng et al 2020, Hu and Wang 2020, Meng et al 2017.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this paper, we use cost-based environmental regulation indices as the proxy variable for the level of environmental regulations (Guo et al 2019b, Hu and Wang 2020, Lanoie et al 2008, Wu et al 2020, Yang et al 2020. We adopt the ratio of industrial pollution governance expenditures collected by each province to its industrial added value (denoted as ER) as the environmental regulation variable.…”

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confidence: 99%

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How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect CO2 Emissions? A Regional Analysis in China

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Zhang

2021

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More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has created massive economic policy uncertainty (EPU). EPU and its economic fallout have been a hot topic of study, however, the impact of EPU on CO2 emissions has been seldom addressed to date. This paper investigates the direct impact of the EPU on CO2 emissions and indirect effect via the environmental regulation at the national and regional levels using the panel data model and provincial panel data from 2003 to 2017 in China. The empirical results show that the central region is the most special one, which all explanatory variables except energy consumption are all non-significant even at the 10% level. For other samples, there is a significant positive correlation between EPU and CO2 emissions, whether in the national or regional level. Additionally, environmental regulation alone can achieve the purpose of curtailing carbon emissions. However, when the EPU is taken into consideration, environmental regulation exerts a significantly positive effect on CO2 emissions, leading to unintended increase in emissions. Moreover, the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis was confirmed in the national and eastern samples, while CO2 emissions increase monotonically as economic level grows for western datasets. Based on the overall findings, some policy implications were put forward.

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Section: Robustness Testmentioning

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How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect CO2 Emissions? A Regional Analysis in China

Liu

Zhang

2021

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“…The changes in the TFP in different areas were relatively small, whereas the changes in the GTFP were significant. The GTFP of eastern provinces was much higher than that of the central and western, where eastern, central, and western units are divided by the method of Hu and Wang ( 2020) [33]; it steadily increased from 2001 to 2010 and then slightly decreased in 2011-2014. In the eastern areas, the average GTFP was substantially higher than the TFP, indicating that production was moving towards less energy consumption and less pollution.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Where it ENVI is the investment in industrial pollution treatment, and it P indicates the industrial output in each province. it it P GDP is used to correct it it ENVI P to avoid errors resulting from the differences of the industrial structure [33]. China imposed PDF in 1982; PDF are primarily regulated by the market in China.…”

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Environmental Regulation and Green Productivity: Evidence of the Moderating Effect of Chinese Environmental Decentralization

Chen¹

2020

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Environmental decentralization (ED), as an institutional factor, impacts the effectiveness of environmental regulation to achieve green productivity (GTFP). Based on panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2001 to 2015, this paper assessed GTFP, whose value is higher than 1. A two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) was employed to test the effects of environmental regulations (environmental protection investment (ENV) and pollutant discharge fees (PDF)) on GTFP with or without being influenced by ED. Without the impact of ED, GTFP is significantly inhibited by ENV, while it is significantly promoted by PDF. Under the influences of environmental decentralization from the central to the local authorities (TED), ENV has insignificantly negative effects on GTFP; contrarily, PDF have positive effects on GTFP. As for moderating effects of environmental decentralization at different administrative levels within a province, the degree of provincial environmental decentralization (PTED) should be decreased, while the degrees of prefectural ED (UTED) and county-level ED (CTED) should be increased. Generally, rationally allocating environmental management power among various administrative levels in a province increases the effectiveness of PDF to achieve green productivity while decreases the negative effects of ENV.

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“…The changes in the TFP in different areas were relatively small, whereas in the GTFP were dramatic. In the eastern part of China, the GTFP was much higher than that of the central and western, steadily and rapidly rising from 2001 to 2010 before slightly dropping in 2011-2014, where these three regions were divided by the method of Hu and Wang (2020) [29]. It is also worth noting that eastern provinces embraced the most obvious difference between GTFP and TFP, representing a sustainable production tendency with less energy consumption and pollution.…”

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Environmental Regulation and Green Productivity: Evidence of the Moderating Effect of Chinese Environmental Decentralization

Chen¹,

Zhao²

2020

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Environmental decentralization (ED), or the allocation of environmental protection affairs and responsibilities among various administrative authorities, affects the effectiveness of environmental regulation in promoting green total factor productivity (GTFP). Based on panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2001 to 2015, this paper employs dynamic panel models to test the effects of environmental regulations (environmental protection investment, ENV; pollutant discharge fees, PDF) on GTFP, with or without being influenced by ED. Without the impact of ED, GTFP is significantly inhibited by ENV while significantly promoted by PDF. Considering the impact of ED, with the strengthening of ED, the negative effects of ENV on GTFP is significant; contrarily, the positive effects of PDF on GTFP is significant; improving provincial ED adds negative effects of ENV, while reduces the positive effects of PDF; increasing prefectural ED reduces negative effects of ENV; expanding county-level ED adds the positive effects of PDF. Therefore, to boost GTFP growth, prefectural environmental protection authorities should have more autonomy in ENV, while the county-level should have more autonomy in PDF.

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How does environmental regulation influence China’s carbon productivity? An empirical analysis based on the spatial spillover effect

Cited by 114 publications

References 32 publications

How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect CO2 Emissions? A Regional Analysis in China

How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect CO2 Emissions? A Regional Analysis in China

Environmental Regulation and Green Productivity: Evidence of the Moderating Effect of Chinese Environmental Decentralization

Environmental Regulation and Green Productivity: Evidence of the Moderating Effect of Chinese Environmental Decentralization

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