How Does Technological Innovation Mediate the Relationship between Environmental Regulation and High-Quality Economic Development? Empirical Evidence from China

Li, Die; Hu, Sumin

doi:10.3390/su13042231

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“…The main reason is that, compared with other regions, the Yellow River Basin has special innate natural conditions and acquired social function positioning, and is subject to strong environmental regulations, so the green total factors fluctuate greatly. The conclusion that environmental regulation significantly promotes the growth of GTFP is consistent with most scholars' research, which verifies the establishment of Porter's hypothesis from the perspective of productivity, indicating that pollution control and the improvement of productivity may become a win-win situation [34,35]. However, a considerable number of studies have shown that the high-intensity environmental regulation has an inhibitory effect on industrial GTFP [36,37].…”

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Effects of Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity: An Evidence from the Yellow River Basin, China

Mao

Zhu

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Based on the data of 59 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin from 2011 to 2019, this paper uses the Slack Based Measure-Global Malmquist Luenberger (SBM-GML) model to measure green total factor productivity (GTFP) of the cities. Under the space–time concept of the Basin, heterogeneity analysis of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin is conducted. On this basis, a panel Tobit model is constructed to analyze the impact of environmental regulation on GTFP in the whole basin, upstream region, middle region and downstream region. The results show that the intensity of environmental regulation in the Yellow River Basin increases gradually, which is the highest in the lower reaches, followed by the middle reaches; spatially, the intensity of environmental regulation shows a certain aggregation trend. The green economic growth is realized in the whole basin, and the green technology progress effect is the driving factor of GTFP. The GTFP distribution in the upstream region is relatively concentrated, showing a slow upward trend. The distribution of GTFP in the middle reaches is discrete, and the annual difference is large. In the downstream region, it shows a trend of decline first and then increase. Environmental regulation promotes GTFP in the whole basin, upper, middle and lower reaches, accompanied by certain spatial differences. The Yellow River Basin breaks through the cost effect brought by environmental regulation and triggers technological innovation, thereby enhancing GTFP; the “Porter hypothesis” has been verified in the Yellow River Basin.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Effects of Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity: An Evidence from the Yellow River Basin, China

Mao

Zhu

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…There have been two main approaches to the characterization of high-quality economic development (HQED): One is to measure by using single indicators such as TFP [16,17], GTFP [7,18,19]. Although GTFP is modified based on the traditional TFP, considering the economic activities by incorporating environmental factors, this method still mainly focuses on the efficiency of economic development, and can't reflect the economic stability and equity.…”

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“…Inspired by previous researchers [4,6,19], this study constructs the baseline panel estimates to test the effects of TI on the quantity and quality of economic growth, the detailed specific forms of the estimated models are as follows:…”

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Research on the Impact of Technology Innovation on Quantity and Quality of Economic Growth in the Yangtze River Delta of China: A Comparative Study

Cao¹,

Ge²

2021

IJSDP

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High-quality economic development (HQED) has recently become a crucial sustainable growth mode in China, which pursues economic growth while maintaining social equity and green ecology. The HQED of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) has played an exemplary role in achieving the leap from “China speed” to “China Quality”. In this paper, we first use the entropy-weight multidimensional comprehensive evaluation method to calculate the HQED index as a proxy for the quality of economic growth. Then, using panel data of 41 cities in the YRD, we conduct a comparative study to examine impacts of technological innovation (TI) on quantity and quality of economic growth by employing different panel estimation models over the period 2009-2019 and check the robustness in five ways. Finally, this paper investigates the TI-economic growth link based on the panel quantile regression across the conditional distributions of economic growth levels. Results show that TI has significantly positive effects in terms of both quantity and quality of economic growth, and the promoting effect on the quantity of economic growth is almost four times higher than that of quality under mean estimations by double fixed-effects. The effect on quantity of economic growth is also stronger than that of quality under the conditional distribution, and TI has a stronger impact for regions with higher levels of economic growth.

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“…In their study, Tao Zhu et al used labor productivity (GDP per capita) to express high-quality economic development [14], and Atif Jahanger used total factor productivity to represent high economic quality [15]. Yun Liu et al [16], Die Li and Sumin Hu [17] use green total factor productivity as an indication of high-quality economic development. Nevertheless, a single indicator is frequently unable to convey the complexities of high-quality economic development.…”

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Effect of Collaborative Innovation on High-Quality Economic Development in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration—An Empirical Analysis Based on the Spatial Durbin Model

2023

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High-quality economic development is an innovation-driven economy, and collaborative innovation is key to maximizing its effects. In terms of the influence of cooperative innovation of urban agglomerations on high-quality economic development, urban agglomerations are of considerable relevance to the coordinated development of China’s regional economy. This research established an evaluation system of high-quality economic development indicators for the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration based on panel data of 13 cities from 2003 to 2020, and then estimated the level of high-quality development of each city’s economy. The spatial Durbin model was used in this article to examine the effects of collaborative innovation on the high-quality development of the economy. The findings indicated that, although high-quality economic development was increasing across the board in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration, it varied greatly between the individual cities. Beijing and Tianjin had much higher levels of high-quality economic development than the other cities in Hebei, and there was some variation within the Hebei cities as well. The high-quality economic development of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration exhibited no spatial correlation characteristics under the weight of geographical distance. However, there was an aggregation effect on the differential relationship of economic development, which was also significant under the dual influence of economic geography. The collaborative innovation of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration could promote the high-quality economic development of both the inner and surrounding cities, and could also improve the high-quality economy development level of the overall urban agglomeration.

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How Does Technological Innovation Mediate the Relationship between Environmental Regulation and High-Quality Economic Development? Empirical Evidence from China

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

Effects of Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity: An Evidence from the Yellow River Basin, China

Effects of Environmental Regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity: An Evidence from the Yellow River Basin, China

Research on the Impact of Technology Innovation on Quantity and Quality of Economic Growth in the Yangtze River Delta of China: A Comparative Study

Effect of Collaborative Innovation on High-Quality Economic Development in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration—An Empirical Analysis Based on the Spatial Durbin Model

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