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Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China | |
Guojun He; Shaoda Wang; Bing Zhang | |
2020-07-01 | |
出版年 | 2020 |
国家 | 瑞典 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
英文摘要 | This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on firm productivity using a spatial regression discontinuity design implicit in China’s water quality monitoring system. Because water quality readings are important for political evaluations, and the monitoring stations only capture emissions from their upstream regions, local government officials are incentivized to enforce tighter environmental standards on firms immediately upstream of a monitoring station, rather than those immediately downstream. Exploiting this discontinuity in regulation stringency with novel firm-level geocoded emission and production datasets, we find that immediate upstream polluters face a more than 24% reduction in Total Factor Productivity (TFP), and a more than 57% reduction in chemical oxygen demandemissions, as compared to their immediate downstream counterparts. We find that the discontinuity in TFP does not exist in non-polluting industries, only emerged after the government explicitly linked political promotion to water quality readings, and was predominantly driven by prefectural cities with career-driven leaders. Linking the TFP estimate with the emission estimate, a back of the envelope calculation indicates that China’s water regulation efforts between 2000 and 2007 was associated with aneconomic costof more than 800billion Chinese yuan. |
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来源平台 | Environment for Development Initiative |
文献类型 | 科技报告 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/281861 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Guojun He,Shaoda Wang,Bing Zhang. Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China,2020. |
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