Environmental regulation and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Do environmental regulation measures matter?

Yang, Jing; Guo, Huanxiu; Liu, Beibei; Shi, Rui; Zhang, Bing; Ye, Weili

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.144

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“…The literature of energy and environmental economics has documented evidence of various incidences, where the impact of corruptive practices on environmental quality has been seen. The reduction in the rigour of environmental laws might be associated with environmental degradation, and various researchers have identified this issue (Lucas et al, 1992;Gray and Shadbegian, 2003;Reijnders, 2003;Ren et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2018). Many-a-times, incidents of environmental degradation might also be associated with the poor administration of these environmental laws, and this also comes under the purview of corruptive practices (Aşıcı and Acar, 2018;Yuan and Xiang, 2018;Jiang et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2019;Yuan et al, 2019).…”

Section: Impact Of Corruption On Environmental Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

Sinha¹,

Gupta

Shahbaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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This study investigates the impact of corruption in public sector on carbon emissions in presence of energy use segregation, following the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework. The study has been carried out for Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) and Next 11 countries over the period of 1990-2017. Along with the finding of inverted N-shaped EKC for both the cases, we find that incidents of corruption enhance environmental degradation by reducing the positive impact of renewable energy consumption on environmental quality, and increasing the negative impact of fossil fuel consumption. This study has also divulged that the corruptive practices are more prone in case of the countries, where the development is mature and institutionalization is more stringent. Based on these findings, we suggest that environmental policies should take account of the corruption, and thereby, making the policies more robust and effective.

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Section: Impact Of Corruption On Environmental Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

Sinha¹,

Gupta

Shahbaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

173

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“…Franco and Marin (2013) support the above conclusions by using energy taxes strength to proxy environmental regulation stringency in manufacturing [23]. suggested that local government may use environmental regulations to achieve economic objectives [25].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Some scholars believe that compensation effect can be achieved which can support porter hypothesis. Then the environmental quality can be greatly improved through effective environmental regulation (Berman and Bui, 2001; Yang et al, 2012; Franco and Marin, 2013; Peuckert, 2014; Yang et al, 2018) [21][22][23][24][25]. Zhang et al (2011) proposed the relationship between productivity measured by Malmquist Luenberger index and environmental regulation and found more stringent enforcement of environmental regulation can help to promote the productivity [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Nonlinear Effects of Environmental Regulation on Environmental Pollution

Liu

Neng-sheng

2019

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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This paper classifies environmental regulation into two types and constructs a theoretical framework to explore the influences of fee-based environmental regulation and invest-based environmental regulation on environmental pollution. It then establishes some dynamic spatial autoregressive nonlinear econometric models to test the theoretical hypothesis based on 30-area panel data from 2004 to 2016. The results illustrate that inverted “U” shape curve relationship exists between fee-based environmental regulation and environmental pollution, while a “U” shape curve relationship between invest-based environmental regulation and environmental pollution exists. In addition, the findings suggest that improving the proportion of secondary industry can directly promote the environmental quality while effectively control of foreign direct investment and fiscal decentralization is also indispensable. Thus, the government should make targeted research about the optimal intensity of fee-based environmental regulation and invest-based environmental regulation and make targeted enterprise policy for the environmental pollution reduce, which contains promoting the energy revolution and strengthening the depth and strength of opening-up step by step.

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“…Studies have shown that that an increasing level of openness in less developed regions leads to a growing number of energy-intensive and polluting enterprises [37,38]. According to the "Pollution Haven" hypothesis [39], China's environmental regulations are less stringent than those of developed countries [40]. With the gradual increase in the degree of openness, many industries that consume high amounts of energy and produce large amounts of pollution may flood into China, which would result in an increase in energy consumption [41].…”

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The Dynamic Effect of High-Tech Industries’ R&D Investment on Energy Consumption

2019

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High-tech industries are characterized by strong technology, low energy consumption, and low pollution. Among these high-tech industries, five sectors (pharmaceutical industry, aerospace industry, electronic and communication equipment industry, computer and office equipment industry, and medical equipment industry) are selected for our study; and R&D investment is an important support for the development of high-tech industries. How do research and development (R&D) investments affect energy consumption in high-tech industries? Are these effects all positive? What are the differences in the impacts for different types of high-tech sectors or in different regions? And why? To analyze these issues, state space mode is an appropriate method which presented a dynamic process, accurately estimating the parameters at each time nod. We used this model to analyze the impact of five high-tech sectors' research and development (R&D) investments on energy consumption in the four regions of China from 1998 to 2016. Some conclusions are drawn from the research: (1) Pharmaceutical industry has a negative influence on energy consumption in all regions. Compared with other types of high-tech industries, the pharmaceutical industry consumes a higher degree of energy. (2) In the east, middle, and northeast of China, a gap remains between scientific research and production due to the lack of high-tech personnel in the aerospace industry, which lead to a weak effects on energy consumption in these regions (3) For the electronic and communication equipment industry and computer and office equipment industry, the continuous inflow of funds and talent has led to greater competition pressure and excess production capacity in some developed areas. This accounts for the fact that the two industries' R&D investment is beneficial to the reduction of energy consumption in the western regions. (4) The densely populated eastern region has a large demand for health services, leading to an increased demand for medical equipment. That is why the R&D of medical equipment industry have significantly reduced the energy consumption in the east regions than in the other regions.

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Environmental regulation and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Do environmental regulation measures matter?

Cited by 125 publications

References 27 publications

Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

Nonlinear Effects of Environmental Regulation on Environmental Pollution

The Dynamic Effect of High-Tech Industries’ R&D Investment on Energy Consumption

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