Does environmental regulation increase domestic value-added in exports? An empirical study of cleaner production standards in China

Sun, Chuanwang; Zhan, Yanhong; Gao, Xiang

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106154

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“…Zhong et al [5] found that environmental regulation promotes industry eco-efficiency based on 36 components of industry-level data in China from 2009-2018, using industry-level environmental legislation as a proxy variable for environmental regulation. Sun et al [6] found that environmental regulations promote domestic value being added to Chinese firms' exports through resource reallocation effects. Franco and Marin [7] found that the environmental regulation of energy tax significantly contributed to the increase of industry productivity by examining the impact of the energy tax on productivity based on industrylevel data in European countries.…”

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Does Stronger Environmental Regulation Promote Firms’ Export Sophistication? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on Sewage Charges Standard Reform in China

Zhang

2023

Sustainability

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Based on the quasi-natural experiment of sewage charges standard reform, this paper adopts a staggered difference-in-difference model to empirically investigate the effect of environmental regulation on firms’ export sophistication and the mechanism of the effect, using the matched data from the Chinese Annual Survey of Industrial Firms and Chinese Custom Trade databases from 2004 to 2013. The results show that (1) the environmental regulation policy of sewage charges standard reform significantly promotes the upgrading of firms’ export sophistication; (2) the impact of sewage charges standard reform on firms’ export sophistication is heterogeneous, in that the promotion effect of sewage charges standard reform on firms’ export sophistication is mainly manifested in simultaneous import and export firms, large-sized firms, and local firms; and (3) the sewage charges standard reform mainly through the mechanisms of innovation compensation effect and product switching effect to promote firms’ export sophistication. This paper provides empirical evidence and policy insights for governments to formulate and implement environmental protection policies appropriately.

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Does Stronger Environmental Regulation Promote Firms’ Export Sophistication? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on Sewage Charges Standard Reform in China

Zhang

2023

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Import competition and sustainable development of global value chains: Evidence from China

Feng,

Tang

2023

Sustainable Development

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As the largest developing country and the second largest importer, China provides meaningful research on import competition and the global value chain (GVC). This article uses theoretical models and empirical tests to explore whether and how import competition affects the sustainable development of Chinese firms' GVCs. Moreover, we utilize China's entry into the WTO as a quasi‐natural experiment for import competition to further test the robustness of our findings. Ultimately, we find that import competition reduces the sustainable development of GVCs by decreasing the quality of imported intermediate inputs, which inhibits technology spillover, and by increasing the substitution of foreign inputs for domestic materials. Heterogeneous analyses show that import competition negatively affects ordinary trade and mixed trade firms while having no significant impact on processing trade firms. Moreover, this negative effect is especially significant for firms in eastern and central regions.

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Influence of environmental technologies and income on the environment in OECD member countries transitioning to low carbon societies

Soto

2024

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Does environmental regulation increase domestic value-added in exports? An empirical study of cleaner production standards in China

Cited by 38 publications

References 45 publications

Does Stronger Environmental Regulation Promote Firms’ Export Sophistication? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on Sewage Charges Standard Reform in China

Does Stronger Environmental Regulation Promote Firms’ Export Sophistication? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on Sewage Charges Standard Reform in China

Import competition and sustainable development of global value chains: Evidence from China

Influence of environmental technologies and income on the environment in OECD member countries transitioning to low carbon societies

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