The impact of campaign-style enforcement on corporate environmental Action：Evidence from China’s central environmental protection inspection

Wang, Hongru; Fan, Chengming; Chen, Sicheng

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125881

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“…As a widespread enforcement action, CEI increases the strength and scope of the environmental regulation of local governments, which effectively avoids the phenomenon of pollution haven. In this case, high-pollution firms may be forced to shut down (Wang et al, 2021a) or undergo a transformation and upgrade by enhancing their technology (Zhang et al, 2022), contributing to the transformation of the industrial structure from low to high.…”

Section: The Logic Of Industrial Structure Upgrading Under Ceimentioning

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Does central environmental inspection promote the industrial structure upgrading in China? An attention-based view

Wang

Ma²,

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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While central environmental inspection (CEI), a sort of campaign-style enforcement, has been adopted in China to tackle environmental issues, it is unclear if the CEI has promoted industrial structure upgrading. Based on a sample of 279 cities from 2011 to 2018 in China, this study investigates the impact of CEI on industrial structure upgrading and its intrinsic mechanism using the difference-in-differences approach (DID). The results reveal that 1) CEI significantly promoted industrial structure upgrading. 2) Local government environmental attention played a mediating role between CEI and industrial structure upgrading. 3) Heterogeneity analysis revealed that the effect of CEI on industrial structure upgrading differed significantly with regional discrepancies and the officials’ promotion motivation. Specifically, the CEI had greater effects on the eastern region and those cities whose officials have a strong promotion motivation. This study indicates that the central government should continue to promote routine inspection, special inspection, and look-back mechanism construction, thus enhancing the sustainability of the industrial structure upgrading effect. Overall, this study contributes to industrial structure upgrading theoretical research and offers useful insights into the environmental governance of emerging countries.

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Section: The Logic Of Industrial Structure Upgrading Under Ceimentioning

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“…Local governments influence firms' environmental actions by closing polluting firms, reducing their production scale, or incentivizing them to reduce pollution emissions. As a result, the firms reduce their carbon emissions (Wang et al, 2021a). Also, the CEI improves firms' environmental information disclosure (Pan and Yao, 2021).…”

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Does central environmental inspection promote the industrial structure upgrading in China? An attention-based view

Wang

Ma²,

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…RDD has been widely applied to the assessment research of environmental policy effectiveness [see ( 27 , 31 , 32 )]. Following prior studies ( 12 , 27 , 33 ), this study utilizes sharp regression discontinuity (SRD) model to investigate the effect of CEPI on air pollution of cities in China. According to the principle of SRD and related literature ( 23 ), the specific SRD model is set as follows:…”

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Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection

Feng

Cheng

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Central environmental protection inspection (CEPI) is a major institutional innovation in China's environmental governance, but its effectiveness in improving air quality is still unclear. However, the effectiveness of CEPI is of great significance and can be regarded as an important reference for deepening the reform of environmental governance system in China. This article takes the CEPI as a quasi-natural experiment and uses the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and the difference-in-differences (DID) methods to examine the effectiveness of this policy. The study found that the first round of CEPI reduced the air pollution of cities in the inspected provinces in a short time. Moreover, this positive policy effect persisted in the aftermath of the inspection, but this long-term effect is mainly reflected in PM10 and SO2. Heterogeneity analysis showed that CEPI was only effective in reducing air pollutants of industry-oriented cities, cities in Central and Eastern China, and cities with large or small population size. The moderating effect analysis indicated that a healthy relationship (close and clean) between the local governments and businesses was conducive to reducing air pollution. The research confirmed the presence of “selective” reduction of air pollutants in the long run caused by CEPI, thereby providing new inspiration for the improvement of campaign-style environmental governance and the follow-up CEPI work.

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“…First, this paper contributes to the limited empirical evidence on the impact of wastewater pollutant discharge standards in emerging economies. A growing body of literature has discussed the impact of environmental regulation on the environmental and economic outcomes in China, such as pollution reduction mandates [ 4 , 5 , 6 ], river chief system [ 7 , 8 , 9 ], and central supervision [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ]. However, only a few researchers pay attention to the impact of discharge standard changes, which directly affect pollution emissions and the economic performance of manufacturing firms.…”

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The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Firm Performance: Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry in China

Jiang

2023

IJERPH

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In areas with serious pollution problems, the government designates a special emission limit (SEL) for pollution control and environmental protection in China. This paper examines the effects of chemical oxygen demand (COD) SEL on firms’ production activity and market performance in the pulp and paper industry in the Lake Tai area in China. Using firm-level data, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy and find that SEL has a negative impact on the production scale, profitability, and market size of the regulated firms, while showing no significant impact on firm exports. The heterogeneity tests suggest that the impact of SEL on production and market performance varies with firm ownership, firm size, and target market. The reallocation effect of production shifts extra production from exited firms to existing firms, which explains the expansion of production scale and market size for SOEs and large-sized regulated firms. Compared with the decline of production scale, the inventory alleviation effect reduces the negative impact of stricter environmental regulation on firm performance.

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The impact of campaign-style enforcement on corporate environmental Action：Evidence from China’s central environmental protection inspection

Cited by 65 publications

References 55 publications

Does central environmental inspection promote the industrial structure upgrading in China? An attention-based view

Does central environmental inspection promote the industrial structure upgrading in China? An attention-based view

Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection

The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Firm Performance: Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry in China

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