Environmental regulations and industrial competitiveness: evidence from China

Stavropoulos, Spyridon; Wall, Ronald; Xu, Yuanze

doi:10.1080/00036846.2017.1363858

Cited by 109 publications

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“…Regulatory stringency and stakeholders' demands for environmental protection are correlated with the level of economic development. In general, environmental regulations are more stringent, and stakeholder pressures are stronger in advanced countries than in developing countries (Dögl & Behnam, ; Stavropoulos, Wall, & Xu, ; Zhu, Qu, Geng, & Fujita, ). The theory of organizational learning argues that external pressures trigger firms to conduct learning and further react to these pressures (Eggers & Kaplan, ; Levinthal, ).…”

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Understanding variation in the relationship between environmental management practices and firm performance across studies: A meta‐analytic review

2019

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The relationship between environmental management practices and firm performance has continuously received much attention in academic research. As existing literature on the link of the two constructs is characterized by heterogeneous research characteristics and mixed empirical evidence, one interesting question arises: Do research characteristics affect the magnitude and direction of the relationship between environmental management practices and firm performance? Amassing a database of 92 studies, 199 effect sizes, and 72,258 firms, we examine this question by conducting a meta-analysis. The characteristics investigated in this study include item number of performance measures, year of data collection, industry type, economic development, and Hofstede's five cultural dimensions. A meta-regression reveals that environmental management practices are positively associated with firm performance and that the degree of this association depends on these contexts. Specifically, the environmental management practices-performance relationship increases with year of data collection, is stronger with multiple item measures, and is higher for firms in developed countries and in cultures characterized by high power distance, low individualism, low uncertainty avoidance, and low long-term orientation.

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Understanding variation in the relationship between environmental management practices and firm performance across studies: A meta‐analytic review

2019

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“…The implementation of ER largely depends on the intentions of local governments, which are closely related to the level of local economic development [35]. In the early and middle stages of industrialization of developing countries [41], local offices are more inclined to prioritize economic development. However, both the environmental Kuznets curve and the underlying environmental demand theory confirmed that people's demand for environmental public goods increases with the economic development level [42].…”

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The Impact of Environmental Regulation on the Location of Pollution-Intensive Industries in China under Agglomeration Effect

Shu-min

Duan

2021

IJERPH

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Pollution-intensive industries (PIIs) have both scale effect and environmental sensitivity. Therefore, this paper studies how environmental regulation (ER) affects the location dynamics of PIIs under the agglomeration effect. Our results show that, ER can increase the production costs of pollution-intensive firms (PIFs) by internalizing the negative impact of pollutant discharge in a region, and thus, directly reduces the region’s attractiveness to PIFs. Meanwhile, ER can indirectly reduce the attractiveness of a region to PIFs by reducing the externality of the regional agglomeration effect. Moreover, these influences are regulated by the level of local economic development. Based on the moderated mediating effect model, we find evidence from the site selection activities of newly built chemical firms in cities across China. The empirical test shows that compared with 2014, the proportion of the direct effect of ER to the total effects significantly decreased in 2018, while the proportion of indirect effects under the agglomeration effect increased significantly. Our findings provide reference for the government to design effective environmental policies to guide the location choice of new PIFs.

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“…The results of the robustness test are reported in Table 7. We mainly focus on CAC and MBI environmental regulation [33]. Environmental regulation which is calculated by the EWM in the total sample, standard rate of industrial waste water discharge and comprehensive utilization rate of industrial solid waste all belong to CAC environmental regulation.…”

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“…Costantini and Mazzanti explored that the export competitiveness of European Union was fostered by environmental regulation and innovation, testing the "strong" version of the PH [32]. While, Stavropoulos et al concluded the U-shaped relationship between environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness [33]. Hence, environmental regulation is conducive to expand the export by enlarging industrial competitiveness [34][35][36].…”

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How environmental regulation affects China’s rare earth export?

Pan

Feng

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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China’s rare earth export trade has developed so rapidly since 1990s that China has gradually occupied a leading position in the international market. However, this fast development was proceeding at the cost of the rare earth energy consumption and environmental devastation. Now China begins to attach great importance to environmental protection, which attracts many researchers. This study aims to analyze the influence of environmental regulation on China’s rare earth export trade. And the original study is amongst the few to examine the relationship between environmental regulation and China’s rare earth export with the product-level data. Different from previous studies, this paper selects China’s rare earth export data from 1995 to 2015 and introduces product heterogeneity based on the rare earth production process. Moreover, this study uses the entropy weight method to measure the intensity of environmental regulation. The core conclusions are as follows: (1) Environmental regulation significantly promotes rather than restrains China’s rare earth export. (2) According to the rare earth production process, this paper divides rare earth products into 3 kinds, that is, rare earth raw materials, rare earth useful components and rare earth end-use applications. Then, it is found that rare earth useful component export in processing and smelting is positively affected by environmental regulation. Rare earth raw materials and end-use applications in China’s export are hardly affected. (3) Technological innovation has a mediating effect on the impact mechanism of environmental regulation on China’s rare earth export, which means that environmental regulation significantly promotes technological innovation of enterprises, and thereby the rare earth export is increased. The findings are helpful for policymakers to resolve the issue of environmental devastation.

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Environmental regulations and industrial competitiveness: evidence from China

Cited by 109 publications

References 34 publications

Understanding variation in the relationship between environmental management practices and firm performance across studies: A meta‐analytic review

Understanding variation in the relationship between environmental management practices and firm performance across studies: A meta‐analytic review

The Impact of Environmental Regulation on the Location of Pollution-Intensive Industries in China under Agglomeration Effect

How environmental regulation affects China’s rare earth export?

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