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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2120902
The impacts of environmental regulation on regional green productivity growth in China: from the perspective of local-neighborhood effects
Ping Lu
Ying Wen
Zhihong Li
Ying Ding
Xiaoyu Chen
Liangliang Han
Sažetak
It is of great theoretical and practical implications for developing
countries to achieve the win-win for economic growth and environmental
performance. Extant studies focus on the local effect of
environmental regulation, but ignore the neighborhood effect. This
study tries to fill the gap from both the theoretical analysis and
empirical test. We construct the theoretical framework of the localneighborhood
effect of environmental regulation on regional green
productivity growth (GPG). Based on the panel data of 237 cities in
China from 2011 to 2020, we employ the spatial panel models to
empirically examine the local-neighborhood effects of environmental
regulation on regional GPG. We further use the mediating effect
models to examine the mechanism of environmental regulation
affecting neighborhood GPG. The results demonstrate that both
the local and neighborhood effect on regional GPG are U-shaped.
The difference is that the inflection point of neighborhood effect is
larger than that of local effect. The stringency of environmental regulations
implemented by most cities in China is on the left side of
the inflection point of the U-shaped curve, which leads to the inhibition
of local and neighborhood GPG. Moreover, both green technology
spillover mechanism and pollution transfer mechanism play
a significant mediating role in the neighborhood effect of environmental
regulation. The competition between these two mechanisms
determines the U-shaped feature of neighborhood effect of
environmental regulation. Finally, we put forward policy suggestions
for the GPG from the perspective of local-neighborhood effect
of environmental regulation.
Ključne riječi
Green productivity growth; environmental regulation; spatial econometrics; localneighborhood effects
Hrčak ID:
306472
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.3.2023.
Posjeta: 125 *