Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2035243
Environmental regulation and high-quality sustainable development of China’s economy – an empirical study based on a spatial durbin model and threshold model
Shuangpeng Yang
Zhonglu Chen
Muhammad Umar
Ambreen Khursheed
Abstract
Coordinating and managing the contradictions among the environment, resources and economy is an urgent problem in China.
Based on the panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China from
2004 to 2017, this paper empirically studies the impact of environmental regulation on China’s high-quality economic development and the mediating effect mechanism through the spatial
Durbin model and threshold model. The results show that China’s
high-quality economic development shows a fluctuating upward
trend, and the east is higher than the middle and west.
Environmental regulation significantly inhibits high-quality economic development, but its impact is moderated by accelerating
industrial upgrading, promoting technological innovation, and
enhancing foreign direct investment. As the primary driving force,
technological innovation has a significant spatial spillover effect.
The results show that industrial upgrading has no threshold
effect, and technological innovation and foreign direct investment
have the characteristics of a ‘U’ single threshold.
Keywords
High-quality economic development; environmental regulation; spatial durbin model; threshold mode
Hrčak ID:
302867
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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