Import competition and the improvement in pollutant discharge from heterogeneous enterprises: Evidence from China

Wu, Changchang; Su, Nianyou; Guo, Wei; Wei, Wendong

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114809

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“…The competition effect on firms' environmental performance deserves a more detailed explanation. Wu et al (2022) examined the impact of import competition on the pollution intensity of heterogeneous manufacturing enterprises. We leave these interesting topics for future research.…”

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Imported intermediates, technology spillover, and green development: Evidence from Chinese firms

Huang

Pei

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Firms are critical stakeholders to achieve sustainable development. Thus, corporate environmental performance is a subject of broad concern. In an era of globalization, the relationship between trade and environment is hotly debated. One of the central questions is—will imported intermediates contribute to pollution abatement? Using Chinese firm-level data from 2000 to 2013, the article measures the technology spillover of imported intermediates and empirically tests the inhibitory effect and influence mechanism on pollution intensity with a fixed effects model and an instrumental variable approach. We find that: 1) the technology spillover directly increases innovation and indirectly affects innovation by importing diversity. Imported intermediates empower firms with insufficient innovation to control pollution. However, the incentive effect declines when innovation gradually improves. 2) The technology spillover diffuses along the industrial chain. Downstream firms benefit from the diffusion and thus have lower pollution intensity than upstream firms. 3) The technology spillover contributes to the end-of-pipe emission reduction. Also, it improves energy efficiency and promotes source governance. Furthermore, the environmental benefits of imported intermediates differ along a number of dimensions including sourcing countries, firm ownership, and location. Thus, we pinpoint a new channel concerning trade-induced technique effect. Meanwhile, our results confirm the rationale of liberalization and facilitation policies for imported intermediates, that is, trade policies have the potential to better contribute to sustainable development goals.

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Imported intermediates, technology spillover, and green development: Evidence from Chinese firms

Huang

Pei

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Eq (2) is premised on the constant size assumption, where the S = (S − ,S g ,S b ) vector represents the input, desired and undesired output slacks, respectively, and the ρ* objective function characterizes the efficiency of the decision-making unit. Input and output variables are initially determined, employing the approach introduced by Wu et al [51]. Specifically, labor, capital stock, and energy are chosen as inputs, while GDP is designated as the desired output.…”

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Research on the impact of pilot free trade zones on urban green development: A case study based on the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

Wu,

Tian,

Liu

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Green development is an important component of China’s new development concept. Pilot Free Trade Zones (PFTZs), as “experimental fields” for promoting reform, deepening opening-up, and raising the level of an open economy, are important open areas for China to promote green development. However, existing related research is not extensive. This article takes PFTZs as quasi-natural experiments, with the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) as the research area. Based on urban panel data from 2006 to 2020, using multi-period differences-in-differences and spatial differences-in-differences models, it explores the impact effects of PFTZs on urban green development and their potential mechanisms. The research findings indicate: (1) Overall, PFTZs significantly promote urban green development, with variations in impact effects due to different batches and locations of establishment. (2) Mechanism tests show that PFTZs mainly promote urban green development by stimulating technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and reducing government intervention. (3) From the perspective of spatial spillover effects, the establishment of PFTZs not only promotes the green development process in the host cities but also has a promoting effect on the green development of surrounding cities.

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“…The rapid growth of greenhouse gas emissions has caused serious issues on the sustainable growth of the world [ 1 , 2 ]. China has experienced great economic growth for the last a few decades, however, the tremendous growth also leads to high carbon emission.…”

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Environmental regulation and carbon emission efficiency: Evidence from pollution levy standards adjustment in China

He,

Zhang,

Xie

2024

PLoS ONE

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China’s economy experienced great growth, which also induces large carbon emission. Facing the target of “Carbon peak, Carbon neutrality” in China, it is vital to improve the carbon emission efficiency. Employing the spatial Difference-in-Differences model, this paper investigates the impact of environmental regulation on carbon emission efficiency with a quasi-natural experiment of Pollution Levy Standards Adjustment in China. Our empirical results show that the environmental regulation can significantly improve the carbon emission efficiency. moreover, two impact channels are explored: green innovation and industrial upgrading. More specifically, the green innovation increases with environmental regulation, and the increased green innovation improves carbon emission efficiency. The industry upgrading increases with environmental regulation, and the increased industry upgrading improves carbon emission efficiency. Finally, in terms of city heterogeneity, we find that the impact of environmental regulation will be more pronounced for larger cities and resource-based cities. Our findings suggest that the environmental regulation must be enhanced for both smaller cities and non-resource-based cities. Moreover, to promote the green innovation of firms, since green innovation is risky and costly, governments should provide more subsidies or grants on corporate green technologies, thus firms will be motivated to invest in green technologies to reduce carbon emission.

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Import competition and the improvement in pollutant discharge from heterogeneous enterprises: Evidence from China

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

Imported intermediates, technology spillover, and green development: Evidence from Chinese firms

Imported intermediates, technology spillover, and green development: Evidence from Chinese firms

Research on the impact of pilot free trade zones on urban green development: A case study based on the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

Environmental regulation and carbon emission efficiency: Evidence from pollution levy standards adjustment in China

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