Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Effect of Energy-Saving Regulations on the Location of Manufacturing

博士论文研究：节能法规对制造业选址的影响

• 批准号: 1303113
• 负责人: Matthias Ruth
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1303113&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Effect; Energy

This doctoral dissertation research project will examine the effect of regulatory differences in regional energy savings on the location and growth of manufacturing industries in China. The concern for industrial redistribution induced by different environmental regulations across jurisdictions, namely the pollution-haven hypothesis, has long interested geographers and economists. A stricter environmental regulation may increase polluting firms' abatement costs, reduce their competitiveness, and shift them to areas with laxer regulations. This process makes areas with laxer regulations suffer from more pollution, and areas with stricter regulations lose jobs. Using industry-level and firm-level panel data from 2002 to 2010 in China, the doctoral student will investigate whether inter-provincial regulatory differences in energy saving affected the location of manufacturing industries. The analysis will focus on three aspects: two-digit industry-level and firm-level employment, firm-level location choice, and firm-level growth. The econometric analyses will be applied to all provinces for aggregate policy effects and restrictively to counties along provincial borders. The latter analyses should help identify whether there are more abrupt changes in manufacturing activities in border areas and identify differences in the geographical scope of the changes that result from a regulation change across borders. Generalized difference-in-differences models, conditional logit models, and multi-level models will be used for estimation.This research project will advance basic knowledge about the pollution-haven hypothesis and the cost of environmental regulations. It will identify common biases in measuring industry relocation by employing both industry-aggregate and firm-level data with the same sample frame using multiple estimation methods. It will compare the effect of a command-and-control policy with that of a market-based one by incorporating both in the estimation. With comprehensive datasets and estimation methods, the project will measure policy-induced industrial relocation and the relative strength of alternative policy approaches. Project findings will shed light on future energy saving, energy consumption, and natural resource consumption in different areas in China. The findings should help improve the current policy frameworks that governments in many nations can use to meet energy-efficiency targets with fewer adverse impacts. The policy implications of the decentralized regulation in nations like China are highly relevant to the impacts of international climate change policies, especially the issues of carbon leakage and loss of competitiveness for countries that joined international commitments of greenhouse gas reduction. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career.

该博士学位论文研究项目将研究区域能源节省的监管差异对中国制造业的位置和增长的影响。 跨司法管辖区不同环境法规引起的工业再分配的关注，即污染假设，长期以来一直感兴趣的地理学家和经济学家。 更严格的环境法规可能会增加污染公司的减排成本，降低其竞争力，并将其转移到Laxer法规的地区。 这个过程使兰克斯法规的地区遭受了更多的污染，并且法规更严格的地区失去了工作。 使用2002年至2010年在中国的行业级别和公司级别的小组数据，博士生将调查能源储蓄的省内监管差异是否影响了制造业的位置。 该分析将重点介绍三个方面：两位数的行业级别和公司级的就业，公司级别的位置选择以及公司级别的增长。 计量经济学分析将应用于所有省份的总体政策影响，并限制省边界县。 后者的分析应有助于确定边境地区制造活动的突然变化，并确定由跨边界变化导致变化的地理范围的差异。 广义差异差异模型，条件logit模型和多级模型将用于估计。本研究项目将促进有关污染假设和环境法规成本的基本知识。 它将通过使用多种估计方法使用相同的样本框架使用行业聚集和公司级别的数据来确定衡量行业搬迁的共同偏见。 它将通过将两者同时纳入估算中的效果与基于市场的政策的效果进行比较。 通过全面的数据集和估计方法，该项目将衡量政策引起的工业搬迁以及替代政策方法的相对强度。项目发现将阐明中国不同地区的未来节能，能源消耗和自然资源消耗。 这些发现应有助于改善当前的政策框架，这些政策框架在许多国家中可以用来满足不利影响较少的能源效率目标。 在中国等国家中，分散法规的政策影响与国际气候变化政策的影响高度相关，尤其是碳泄漏和竞争丧失的问题，即加入国际温室气体减少的国际承诺的国家。作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，使有前途的学生能够建立独立的研究职业。