Environmental regulation, economic growth and air pollution: Panel threshold analysis for OECD countries

Ouyang, Xiao; Shao, Qinglong; Xiang, Zhu; He, Qingsong; Xiang, Chao; Wei, Guoen

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.056

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“…Once this level of development is reached, emissions begin to decrease proportionately with additional increases in income [16]. This theoretical model explains why studies on the relationship between GDP and particulate matter emissions in developing countries show a positive relationship between these variables [17,18] and a negative relationship in developed countries [19].…”

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confidence: 87%

“…The direct impact of funds on air quality was also not recorded in the case of North Africa and the Middle East [22]. Ouyang et al [19] found that the impact of the funds on pollutant emissions (PM 2.5 ) in the OECD countries was even positive, but this was due to the fact that in developed countries there was often both a decrease in emissions and a decrease in expenditure on air quality protection. Thus, in the econometric modelling, a positive sign in the regression coefficient was obtained.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Efficiency of the EU Environmental Policy in Struggling with Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5): How Agriculture Makes a Difference?

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Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions are an important global issue as air pollutants lead to approximately 7 million deaths per year (World Health Organization). In an attempt to combat this global threat, countries in the European Union (EU) allocate relatively large funds for environmental policies. The main goal of this paper is to assess the long-term efficiency of the EU countries’ environmental policy in reducing the pressure of particulates pollution on the natural environment. For this purpose, multilevel panel regression models based on seminal within–between specification are used. The models are run for a panel of 25 EU countries for the years 2004–2016. In the investigations, we tried to capture the effect of the share of utilized agricultural area (UAA) in non-urban areas of the analyzed countries, as it may potentially influence policy efficiency. It was found that environmental spending in all main categories (pollution abatement, biodiversity, R&D, and environmental protection) had a significant impact on decreasing pollution pressure; however, the policy was more efficient in countries which had a lower share of UAA in their non-urban areas. The study emphasized that the impact of “pollution abatement” expenditure may be underestimated in basic panel models.

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Efficiency of the EU Environmental Policy in Struggling with Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5): How Agriculture Makes a Difference?

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“…Li and Lin [21] used the super efficiency DEA model to study the relationship between investment-driven economic growth model, the industrial structure and green productivity during the period of 1997-2010 in 30 Chinese provinces. Ouyang et al [22] adopted 30 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries' data to examine the non-linear effect of environmental regulation and economic growth on the PM 2.5 (contaminant). Chong et al [23] tested a spatial econometric model employing panel data of the three largest urban agglomerations in China from 2003 to 2013 to examine the influence of environmental regulation on sustainable economic growth, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.…”

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Analysis of Coordinated Development of Energy and Environment in China’s Manufacturing Industry under Environmental Regulation: A Comparative Study of Sub-Industries

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In order to explore the impact of environmental regulation on the coordinated development of energy and the environment with the background of governance transition, we propose a three-stage integrated approach and use the panel data of China’s manufacturing industry 27 sub-sectors during the period of 2006–2015. In the first stage, according to the environmental pollution intensity, the manufacturing industry is divided into heavily polluting industry, moderately polluting industry, and lightly polluting industry. The second stage is employed the slacks-based measure (SBM)-undesirable method to study the sub-industries’ green energy-environmental efficiency under different environmental pollution intensities. Besides, the dynamic changes of technical innovation and efficiency among different industries are analyzed through the Malmquist productivity index. For the purpose of investigating the transmission mechanism of the Porter’s hypothesis and exploring the compound effects of environmental regulation and governance transition on green development, in the third stage, we use the panel data analysis to conduct more in-depth research on the relationship between environmental regulation, governance transition, and technical innovation. Results show that the highest average green energy-environmental efficiency is lightly polluting industry, which is 0.52, followed by the heavily polluting industry at 0.40, and the lowest is the moderately polluting industry, which is 0.32. By decomposing total factor productivity, heavily polluting industry is at the forefront of technical innovation. Panel data analysis results indicate that investment in research and development and governance transition could promote the growth of total factor productivity for manufacturing.

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“…Concerning the relationship between economic development and environmental pollution, the majority of extant literatures have focused on the unidirectional relationship of how economic development affects environmental pollution by using the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) model as the main framework, while the reverse impact of environmental pollution on economic development has scarcely been studied [1][2][3][4][5]. As a matter of fact, economic growth and the environment constitute a large interactive system, so it is possible that the environmental degradation affects economic growth as well.…”

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Did Haze Pollution Harm the Quality of Economic Development?—An Empirical Study Based on China’s PM2.5 Concentrations

Zhao

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2020

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Based on the PM2.5 haze data of China's provinces between 2004-2016, this paper systematically explores the impact of haze pollution on the quality of China's economic development, as well as its transmission mechanisms. This is achieved by measuring the quality of economic development with total factor productivity. Furthermore, this paper innovatively uses precipitation as an instrumental variable for mitigating the endogeneity of the haze pollution variable, by which the impact of haze pollution on the quality of China's economic development is estimated within the framework of two-stage least squares. It is found that: the haze pollution has degraded the quality of China's economic development significantly; the labor supply loss, counter urbanization and human capital disruption are the three major transmission channels through which haze pollution affects the quality of China's economic development; strengthening government's environmental management is effective in mitigating the adverse impact of haze pollution on the economic development quality; and that China's unique fiscal decentralization system has exacerbated the negative economic effect of haze pollution. The policy implications of this paper are as follows: Improvement of economic development quality is a prerequisite for the transition of economic development mode; and the governmental management of haze is conducive to enhancing the quality of atmospheric environment and economic development, and to promoting the high-quality development of the Chinese economy.

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Environmental regulation, economic growth and air pollution: Panel threshold analysis for OECD countries

Cited by 211 publications

References 54 publications

Efficiency of the EU Environmental Policy in Struggling with Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5): How Agriculture Makes a Difference?

Efficiency of the EU Environmental Policy in Struggling with Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5): How Agriculture Makes a Difference?

Analysis of Coordinated Development of Energy and Environment in China’s Manufacturing Industry under Environmental Regulation: A Comparative Study of Sub-Industries

Did Haze Pollution Harm the Quality of Economic Development?—An Empirical Study Based on China’s PM2.5 Concentrations

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