Exploring the effects of congestion charge on relocation decisions under non-capital functions relieving strategy in Beijing

Geng, Kexin; Wang, Yacan; Ettema, Dick; Anderson, Jason R.

doi:10.1016/j.rtbm.2020.100469

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“…The NCFR policy contains two main goals. One is to reduce excessive agglomeration in the metropolitan areas of Beijing, sparing room for emerging industries (Geng et al, 2021). Another goal is to balance the economic development between Beijing and its surrounding areas.…”

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From agglomeration to dispersion: How does China's noncapital functions' relief affect regional development?

Yuan,

Jing,

Liu

2024

Journal of Regional Science

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Agglomeration economies can bring about positive externalities, while excessive agglomeration backfires. However, existing literature on place‐based policies mainly focuses on policies that enhance agglomeration economies. Few studies discuss dispersion policies coping with the negative externality from excessive agglomeration. Owing to the unclear effects of dispersion policies, we conduct empirical research on the noncapital function relief (NCFR) policy, which is implemented to decrease the agglomeration in Beijing, the capital of China, and promote the development of surrounding areas. Exploiting the difference‐in‐difference model, we find that the NCFR policy implementation significantly facilitates the economic growth of the surrounding areas of Beijing. Changes in the distribution of new firm entry and population are two main channels, while no significant effect on the productivity is found. Furthermore, areas that are less‐developed could benefit more from the NCFR policy. Our findings may enlighten other developing countries in urban economic management.

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From agglomeration to dispersion: How does China's noncapital functions' relief affect regional development?

Yuan,

Jing,

Liu

2024

Journal of Regional Science

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“…Although living in a megacity, where opportunities are centralized, provides individuals with access to better labor markets, education, and services, megacities face challenges related to human health [4,5], crime and safety [6,7], traffic congestion [8][9][10], emergency response [11,12], and environmental pollution [4,[13][14][15]. Accordingly, governments have tried to address these problems by reducing population pressure in megacities [16] and improving urban sustainability [17][18][19]. For example, since 1970, the South Korean government has implemented a series of industrial relocation policies by dispersing the economy and population from megacities [20].…”

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“…For example, since 1970, the South Korean government has implemented a series of industrial relocation policies by dispersing the economy and population from megacities [20]. Since 2015, the Beijing government has tried to reduce population pressure by relocating industries that do not fit into the city's strategic location, including the general manufacturing industry, several administrative departments and non-profit service institutions, regional logistics bases, and several educational organizations [16].…”

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“…Telework is a type of work performed remotely using ICT (e.g., smartphones, personal computers, tablets, and virtual conferencing tools such as Zoom) outside the employer's premises [26]. Because one of the main factors influencing an individual's decision-making about where to reside is where they work [16,27], telework, which allows people to live wherever they want (e.g., even in areas far from the employer's premises), can affect their residential location priorities [23]. Therefore, telework has the potential to entice people to move from megacities to places with better costs of living and environmental quality.…”

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Working in the Metaverse: Does Telework in a Metaverse Office Have the Potential to Reduce Population Pressure in Megacities? Evidence from Young Adults in Seoul, South Korea

Choi

2022

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Despite the growing number of teleworkers and the unsustainable challenges (e.g., environmental pollution) facing megacities due to population pressure, few studies have investigated whether telework can reduce population pressure in megacities. This study conducts a scenario-based experiment and proposes that telework can reduce population pressure in megacities by enticing megacity residents to leave the megacity. Specifically, given the increasing number of companies that are adopting metaverse teleworking offices, this study classifies telework into metaverse telework and non-metaverse telework and empirically demonstrates that both types of telework positively influence an individual’s intention to relocate from a megacity to a non-megacity. Additionally, this study further shows that metaverse telework has a greater impact on an individual’s intention to relocate from a megacity to a non-megacity than non-metaverse telework. This study demonstrates how different types of telework can differentially reduce population pressure in megacities and provides practical recommendations for policymakers and strategy managers to support this practice.

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“…The State Council of the People's Republic of China has formulated a series of measures and regulations for the improvement of air quality ( Jin, Andersson & Zhang, 2016 ; Li, Qiao, Zhu, Shi & Wang, 2017 ; Shi, Wang, Chen & Huisingh, 2016 ) in regions with serious air pollution ( Song, Zhang & Zhang, 2020b ) and showed a significant downward trend of the concentration of air pollutants ( Zhao et al., 2021 ; Zhang, Nakatani, Shan & Moriguchi, 2019b ). Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has also carried out a series of industrial layout adjustments from 2014 to reduce the spread of air pollution by adjusting the industrial layout ( Geng, Wang, Ettema & Anderson, 2020 ; Ministry of Natural Resources of China, 2014 ; Shi et al., 2016 ; Wu, Liao & Hu, 2021 ). The joint prevention and control regulation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area achieved remarkable results during crucial events, such as the APEC Meeting in 2014 ( Li et al., 2017 ).…”

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Does the joint prevention and control regulation improve the air quality? A quasi-experiment in the Beijing economic belt during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tao

Wheiler

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Sustainable Cities and Society

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This study aims to clarify the correlation between air pollution of cities in Beijing Economic Belt from a time-varying perspective and estimate effects of joint prevention and control regulation of air pollution. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity. Based on daily data of air quality, we used TVP-VAR model and utilize the pandemic as a quasi-experiment to assess the policies. The results show air pollution in surrounding cities does influence Beijing's air quality, but the relationship has been weakening year by year, mainly due to industrial adjustment which have achieved progress on alleviating the path of air pollution. Therefore, it is necessary to implement joint regulation in areas with serious pollution. Specifically, the relationship between the air quality of Beijing and Zhangjiakou, Chengde, Tianjin decreased as the pandemic became worse. In contrast, there was no significant decline in Langfang and Baoding. So unlike Baoding and Langfang, industrial production increased relationships between air quality of Beijing and the other three cities, which highlights the validity of restrictions. However, restrictions implemented on Baoding and Langfang affect economic development but have little effect on Beijing's air governance. Therefore, joint regulation contributes to realizing sustainable cities, but more targeted policies should be formulated.

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Exploring the effects of congestion charge on relocation decisions under non-capital functions relieving strategy in Beijing

Cited by 4 publications

References 50 publications

From agglomeration to dispersion: How does China's noncapital functions' relief affect regional development?

From agglomeration to dispersion: How does China's noncapital functions' relief affect regional development?

Working in the Metaverse: Does Telework in a Metaverse Office Have the Potential to Reduce Population Pressure in Megacities? Evidence from Young Adults in Seoul, South Korea

Does the joint prevention and control regulation improve the air quality? A quasi-experiment in the Beijing economic belt during the COVID-19 pandemic

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