The influence of environmental regulation on industrial structure upgrading: Based on the strategic interaction behavior of environmental regulation among local governments

Song, Yan; Zhang, Xiao; Zhang, Ming

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120930

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“…Based on the research about environmental regulation and economic development [ 57 ], combined with the purpose of this article, we established an environmental regulation model as follows: lnregu it = f(lnpgdp it , lnpgdpsq it , other variables it ) + v it …”

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Do Double-Edged Swords Cut Both Ways? The Role of Technology Innovation and Resource Consumption in Environmental Regulation and Economic Performance

Zhou

Shi

Huang

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is one of the significant regions with the strongest economic vitality in China. This study focuses on environmental regulation in the eleven Greater Bay Area cities to explore the relationship between it and economic performance for the period 2000–2016. In doing so, we employ spatial panel models (including the spatial instrumental variable method) to investigate the nonlinear relationship between economic growth and environmental regulation. We confirm the existence of a U-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental regulation in the Greater Bay Area. In the first half of the inverted U shape, the higher the economic development level, the stronger the environmental regulation strength; however, the latter begins to decrease after the peak point. The doubled-edged sword does not cut both ways. This paper verifies that technology innovation and resource consumption are two important mechanisms. Further, we find that both economic growth and environmental regulation have negative spatial externalities; innovation has a positive impact on the environmental regulation of the local city as well as surrounding cities, while resource consumption is on the contrary. In conclusion, this paper provides policy recommendations to further promote economic growth and environmental technologies, and to enhance energy efficiency in GBA.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Double-Edged Swords Cut Both Ways? The Role of Technology Innovation and Resource Consumption in Environmental Regulation and Economic Performance

Zhou

Shi

Huang

et al. 2021

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“…Through the review of relevant literature, it is found that academic circles have conducted more studies on the impact of ER on economic development, but the following deficiencies remain. First, most of the existing studies have discussed the relationship between environmental regulation and one aspect of economic development at the national level, such as economic growth (Ouyang et al, 2020), technological innovation (Song et al, 2021), and environmental pollution . Second, most of the existing researches use a single index to measure economic development, which has some limitations.…”

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Decarbonization, Environmental Regulation, and Economic Boom: An Indicator Assessment Based on the Industrial Waste

Yang

et al. 2022

Front. Energy Res.

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Energy-based economic development brings about some environmental problems, and as China’s economy shifts from rapid growth to high-quality development, the implementation of environmental regulation is crucial to achieving environmental protection and high-quality economic development. Based on the panel data of 14 prefectures and cities from 2000 to 2018 in Xinjiang, this study explored the impact of environmental regulation on high-quality economic development by constructing a comprehensive evaluation index system and using entropy method and Tobit regression model. The results show that 1) overall, each 1% increase in environmental regulation is associated with a 0.037% rise in high-quality economic development level; 2) regionally, each 1% increase in environmental regulation is associated with a 0.119% rise in high-quality economic development level in northern Xinjiang, but the effect on the southern Xinjiang is not significant; 3) each 1% increase in environmental regulation, the level of high-quality economic development decreased by 0.034% from 2000 to 2010 and increased by 0.061% from 2011 to 2018. In general, this study adds to the theoretical and empirical study on the influence of environmental regulation on high-quality economic development while providing a methodology for other economies to assess the relationship between the two.

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“…Because the developing world uses energy-intensive production technologies based on fossil fuels—predominantly nonrenewable energy sources (Dong et al, 2019 , 2020b ; Hu et al, 2018 ; Ehigiamuoe & Lean, 2019 )—developed countries generally have illiberal trade models based on the export of dirty commodities (Fakher, 2018 ; Lv & Xu, 2019 ). Furthermore, developing countries typically do not have green or strict regulations on FDI; neither do they have nation-wide standardized regulations on environmental quality (Danlami et al, 2019 ; Song, Li, et al, 2021 ; Song, Zhang, et al, 2021 ; Song, Zhang, et al, 2021 ; L. Zhang et al, 2021 ) nor effective, democratic, and nation-wide standardized mechanisms of environmental governance (Zhang et al, 2021 ). Likewise, public awareness of environmental degradation tends to be low (Mujtaba et al, 2020 ; Zhang et al, 2021 ).…”

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Why are some countries cleaner than others? New evidence from macroeconomic governance

Akan

Gündüz

Vanlı

et al. 2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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This study aims to investigate why some countries are cleaner than the others with reference to macroeconomic governance (MEG) in order to explain how major macroeconomic aggregates should be governed to mitigate environmental pollution at the level of economic systems. Using per capita carbon dioxide emissions (CPC) as the proxy for air pollution, and macro-non-financial governance (MNFG) and macro-financial governance (MFG) as the proxies for MEG, the study introduces the systemic and fragmented governance of green complementarities (GCMs) and dirty complementarities (DCMs) as analytic concepts to compare the MEG models for managing pollution in 13 high-income countries (HICs), 10 upper-middle-income countries (UMICs), and nine lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) for the period 1994–2014. The paper concludes that (i) HICs reduced their CPC levels thanks to adopting green systemic governance by creating GCMs between both MNFG and MFG variables in the long run; (ii) UMICs experienced a remarkable increase in their CPC levels due to adopting dirty systemic governance by creating DCMs between the MNFG variables, but prevented pollution from being higher through creating GCMs between the MFG variables; and (iii) LMICs experienced the highest comparative increase in CPC due to adopting a fragmented governance in managing both MNFG–pollution and MFG–pollution nexus.

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The influence of environmental regulation on industrial structure upgrading: Based on the strategic interaction behavior of environmental regulation among local governments

Cited by 192 publications

References 35 publications

Do Double-Edged Swords Cut Both Ways? The Role of Technology Innovation and Resource Consumption in Environmental Regulation and Economic Performance

Do Double-Edged Swords Cut Both Ways? The Role of Technology Innovation and Resource Consumption in Environmental Regulation and Economic Performance

Decarbonization, Environmental Regulation, and Economic Boom: An Indicator Assessment Based on the Industrial Waste

Why are some countries cleaner than others? New evidence from macroeconomic governance

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