Different Types of Environmental Regulations and Heterogeneous Influence on "Green" Productivity: Evidence from China
Different Types of Environmental Regulations and Heterogeneous Influence on "Green" Productivity: Evidence from China
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10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.10.019
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
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Huang, Jing-jing
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作者：
Xie, Rong-hui;Yuan, Yi-jun;Huang, Jing-jing
本文试图通过考察不同的监管手段和相对严格程度对“绿色”生产率的影响，来检验波特假说的“强”版本在中国是否成立。本文采用基于宽松度的测度（SBM）和Luenberger生产率指数（考虑不良产出），对中国30个省份工业“绿色”生产率增长率进行了评估。这些估计意味着中国的发展模式不可持续，并且存在显着的地区差异。运用面板阈值模型和2000-2012年中国省级面板数据，实证结果表明，指令控制型规制和市场规制都与“绿色”生产率存在非线性关系，并可能正相关，但规制的严格性约束不同：指挥控制存在双阈值，存在一个最优的生产率提高的严格范围;而市场化调控的门槛单一，目前的严格程度对大多数省份来说是合理的。而且，从中国的实际情况来看，市场化调控的生产率效应要比指令控制的生产率效应强得多。非正式管制的机制要复杂得多。因此，我们发现的证据支持“强”波特假说，合理的严格的环境法规可能会提高，而不是降低产业竞争力。(C)2016爱思唯尔B. V.保留所有权利。
This paper attempts to examine if the "strong" version of Porter Hypothesis is supported in China by investigating how different regulatory instruments and the relative stringency impact "green" productivity. We use a slacks based measure (SBM) and Luenberger Productivity Index, accounting for undesirable outputs, to evaluate the industrial "green" productivity growth rates of China's 30 provinces. The estimates imply an unsustainable development model in China with significant regional differences. By employing a panel threshold model and a province-level panel dataset during 2000-2012, empirical results show that both command-and-control and market-based regulation have a non-linear relationship with and can be positively related to "green" productivity but with different constrains on regulation stringency: there are double thresholds with the command-and control and exists an optimal range of stringency for productivity improvement; while a single threshold has been found with the market-based regulation and its current stringency is reasonable for most of provinces. Moreover, based on China's reality, the productivity effect driven by market-based regulation is much stronger than that of the command-and-control. The mechanism of informal regulation is much more complicated. Consequently, we find evidence to support the "strong" Porter Hypothesis that reasonable stringency of environmental regulations may enhance rather than lower industrial competitiveness. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.