Relationship between Local Government Competition, Environmental Regulation and Water Pollutant Emissions: Analysis Based on Mediating Effect and Panel Threshold Model

Ma, Yadong; Cao, Hongmei; Zhang, Lili; Fu, Zhiyu

doi:10.2112/si103-103.1

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“…Policy governance is divided into static and dynamic. Static governance studies evaluate the governance effects of policies at a certain point in time, while dynamic governance observes changes in governance effects by adjusting the implementation of policies (Ma et al, 2020). The guiding policies for resource integration are mainly based on incentive tools and punishment tools, guiding enterprises to choose resource integration strategies to reduce pollution.…”

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Evolutionary game analysis of coal enterprise resource integration under government regulation

Sun

Wang

Zhu

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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: Based on the perspective of government regulation, this paper discusses how to guide and restrict coal enterprises to conduct resource integration behavior, and whether the government supervises this behavior. First, through empirical research, government regulations of coal enterprises are given practical policy implications. Second, using evolutionary game and simulation technology, from the perspective of government regulation, we explore the complex behavioral interaction mechanism between the dominant and inferior coal enterprises, the mechanism between the government and coal enterprises, and analyze the impact of key factors on the dynamic evolution process. Finally, the sensitivity analysis of the selected parameters is discussed in details, which provides useful decision-making suggestions for the government and enterprises. Results demonstrate that:(1) when the power gap between enterprises is great, government regulations are not effective for inferior enterprises;(2) the combination of government regulation can help to improve the efficiency of coal enterprise strategy selection;(3) excessive government regulations make the strategic choices of the government and coal enterprise tend to swing, failing to achieve effectively resource integration and government supervision.

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Evolutionary game analysis of coal enterprise resource integration under government regulation

Sun

Wang

Zhu

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…The region will absorb highpolluting, high-energy-consuming industries in developed regions. Intensified competition benefits GDP growth, but environmental pollution intensifies, and the negative externality of environmental pollution is significant [68]. This competition will also cause ecological damage and reduce the level of HQD.…”

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Environmental Regulation, Local Government Competition, and High-Quality Development—Based on Panel Data of 78 Prefecture-Level Cities in the Yellow River Basin of China

Zhang

Wang

Jiang

2022

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As one of the national strategies of China, the ecological protection of the Yellow River basin (YRB) is vital for the promotion of the high-quality development (HQD) of the regional economy. This paper uses the data of prefecture-level cities in the YRB from 2004–2019 to analyze the effect of environmental regulation and local government competition on HQD. The findings show the following: (1) Environmental regulation can significantly promote HQD in the YRB, and local government competition can significantly reduce HQD. The interaction effect shows that the promotion effect of environmental regulation on HQD weakens with the intensification of competition between local governments. (2) A heterogeneity analysis shows that environmental regulation has a more significant positive impact on HQD for the lower reaches of the YRB. (3) Using a threshold effect test, it is found that the impact of environmental regulation on the HQD presents a significant nonlinear positive effect with an increase in local government competition. When the local government competition represented by the level of economic catch-up exceeds the threshold value of 3.037, this positive effect decreases significantly.

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“…Ma et al (2020) find that formal environmental regulation can influence water pollutant discharges through formal environmental regulation in local government competition, however, there is no clear role mechanism for informal environmental regulation. With the increase in formal environmental regulations, local government competition played a greater role in curbing water pollutant discharges (Ma et al, 2020;Pan et al, 2020;Nie et al, 2021). As an essential tool for environmental management, government environmental spending can not only induce social capital and corporate environmental behavior but can also impinge on economic growth and environmental quality (Ruffing, 2010).…”

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“…Moreover, local governments exert control over the effective tax rate via several factors including tax enforcement and regulation, both of which are major contributors to the distorted implementation of environmental regulatory policies and the effectiveness of environmental regulation (Deng et al, 2021). Ma et al (2020) find that formal environmental regulation can influence water pollutant discharges through formal environmental regulation in local government competition, however, there is no clear role mechanism for informal environmental regulation. With the increase in formal environmental regulations, local government competition played a greater role in curbing water pollutant discharges (Ma et al, 2020;Pan et al, 2020;Nie et al, 2021).…”

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How Multi-Dimensional Local Government Competition Impacts Green Economic Growth? A Case Study of 272 Chinese Cities

Liu

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Green economic growth is an unavoidable choice for China’s development model, while the government-led Chinese economic development system determines that local government competition may have an essential impact on green economic growth. For this purpose, this study employs data on Chinese 272 prefecture-level cities and the system generalized method of moments (SYS-GMM) model to investigate the impact of multi-dimensional local government competition (ecological competition, service competition, economic competition, and comprehensive competition) on green economic growth. The empirical results reveal that local government competition significantly influences green economic growth, in which economic competition significantly inhibits green economic growth, and ecological competition, service competition, and comprehensive competition positively influences green economic growth. The influence mechanism indicates that economic competition, ecological competition, service competition, and comprehensive competition significantly affect green economic growth through economic agglomeration and industrial structure upgrading, respectively. Moreover, the impact of multi-dimensional local government competition on green economic growth shows significant temporal and regional heterogeneity. Therefore, policymakers should further develop a multi-dimensional local government competition target system for local government officials and moderately enhance both ecological competition and service competition that is oriented to green economic growth.

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Relationship between Local Government Competition, Environmental Regulation and Water Pollutant Emissions: Analysis Based on Mediating Effect and Panel Threshold Model

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Evolutionary game analysis of coal enterprise resource integration under government regulation

Evolutionary game analysis of coal enterprise resource integration under government regulation

Environmental Regulation, Local Government Competition, and High-Quality Development—Based on Panel Data of 78 Prefecture-Level Cities in the Yellow River Basin of China

How Multi-Dimensional Local Government Competition Impacts Green Economic Growth? A Case Study of 272 Chinese Cities

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