Market integration and environmental quality: Evidence from the Yangtze river delta region of China

Zhuang, Ke; Shao, Shuai; Fan, Shuya

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110208

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“…Moreover, governments of various countries and regions should learn from the epidemic and formulate relevant policies and environmental protection standards to maintain normal economic operations while maintaining good environmental conditions to reduce the possibility of an outbreak (Shao et al 2020 ; Tian et al 2020 ). In addition, developing countries can fully consider the impact of the interaction of other factors on COVID-19 and environmental research, and provide a stronger theoretical basis for the prevention and control of future epidemics and the sustainable development of the environment (Dong and Liu 2020 ; Zhang et al 2020 ). To get rid of the crisis caused by COVID-19 epidemic, international exchanges and cooperation are essential (Wang and Zhang 2021 ).…”

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Can COVID-19 and environmental research in developing countries support these countries to meet the environmental challenges induced by the pandemic?

Wang

Zhang

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Meeting the huge impact of COVID-19 on the environment requires better research on pandemic and pollution. What is the research capacity of the COVID-19 and environment in developing countries? Can this research capacity support developing countries to deal with the environmental challenges induced by the pandemic? This work is addressed to comprehensively assess the research capacity of the COVID-19 and environment in developing countries using bibliometric analysis techniques and content analysis approach to mining the Web of Science database. The results of data mining were unexpected: the global leader of the COVID-19 and environmental research was not these developed countries, but these developing countries so far, the end of 2020. Developing countries have published more papers on the pandemic and environment than developed countries, and developing countries also dominate pandemic and environmental research in terms of research institutions and authors. The results showed that (i) the impact of COVID-19 and the environment was bidirectional; (ii) energy consumption has posed great impact on environment; (iii) application of big data and artificial intelligence played an important role in improving environmental quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, policy recommendations such as formulating relevant policies and environmental standards, strengthening international exchanges and cooperation, and adjusting and improving energy consumption structure that were put forward for developing countries to meet the environmental challenges induced by the pandemic were offered. Graphical abstract

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Can COVID-19 and environmental research in developing countries support these countries to meet the environmental challenges induced by the pandemic?

Wang

Zhang

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Although some controversy exists regarding the trend of market segmentation in China, economists generally agree that market segmentation is a major problem. Segmentation reduces market efficiency and slows technological progress, which is detrimental to both economic development and environmental protection (Li and Lu 2020;Sun et al 2020;Zhang et al 2020;Zhu et al 2020). Initial research on the causes of market fragmentation in China has focused on local protectionism, which is generally considered a primary cause of market fragmentation and is motivated by strong profit-based motives.…”

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“…As an important component of social governance, environmental regulation promotes both environmental protection goals and technological progress. This is reflected in the "innovation compensation" effect (Ambec et al 2013;Cai et al 2020;Li et al 2019;Peng 2020), wherein external spillover effects or positive externalities serve to reduce environmental pollution and promote technological progress (Fan et al 2020;Li et al 2021;Song et al 2019;Zhang et al 2020). Under China's "new normal" economic plan, environmental regulation has received significant attention, and green economic development has been promoted along with a focus on increasing labor productivity.…”

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Can Environmental Regulation Promote Domestic Market Integration? Evidence From China

Lai

Yang

Cui

2021

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While local protectionism and market segmentation owing to fiscal decentralization are not conducive to broad economic development, they may be rational choices on a local scale. Based on a spatial Durbin model, we analyzed the relationship between environmental regulations and market segmentation in China using interprovincial panel data for 2004–2018. The results indicated that the “beggar-thy-neighbor” phenomenon persists in China; environmental regulations have a U-shaped impact on market segmentation, i.e., in most regions, environmental regulations strongly promote local market integration. Regions with greater decentralization are better able to promote local market integration through environmental regulation, suggesting that local governments are better able to compensate for market failures when vested with greater power. Hence, we propose that the central government should improve performance evaluation indicators for local governments and grant them greater autonomy; additionally, local governments should increase the intensity of environmental regulations as appropriate, thereby promoting both environmental protection and the unification of domestic markets.

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“…Uribe et al [16] found that greater market integration permits a higher level of risk sharing between electricity markets and, as a result, can be expected to reduce the probability of energy crises and energy shortages occurring in any given market in Nord Pool. Zhang et al [17] found that market integration in neighboring regions is conducive to reducing local pollution emissions. Harkening back to how coastal areas in China experienced economic opening, Su and Liang [18] proposed that coastal areas should increase their environmental total factor energy productivity by speeding up their MI.…”

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Market Integration and Regional Innovation in China: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region

Liu

Chang

2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Market integration is an important tool for China’s regionally coordinated economic development. At the same time, China is implementing an innovation-driven development strategy. Therefore, the way the market integration affects regional innovation is of great significance to analyze this problem. The panel data of 27 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region in China with the highest degree of economic integration from 2009 to 2018 are used to investigate the impact of market integration (MI) on regional innovation (RI). The main findings are as follows: the first-order lag term of RI is significantly positive, and RI has certain path dependence. In this regard, MI has a positive impact on RI and promotes RI. The estimated coefficient of MI is significantly positive and has a positive impact on RI and promotes RI. This provides a reference for promoting RI through MI. The contributions of the paper are threefold: (1) This paper examines the impact of MI on RI to provide policy implications for the coordinated development of innovation between regions. (2) The relative price method is adopted to measure the MI, which covers 16 kinds of commodities, covering a wider range than does the traditional method. (3) This paper uses the generalized method of moments (GMM) to test the effect of MI on RI for the first time.

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Market integration and environmental quality: Evidence from the Yangtze river delta region of China

Cited by 98 publications

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Can COVID-19 and environmental research in developing countries support these countries to meet the environmental challenges induced by the pandemic?

Can COVID-19 and environmental research in developing countries support these countries to meet the environmental challenges induced by the pandemic?

Can Environmental Regulation Promote Domestic Market Integration? Evidence From China

Market Integration and Regional Innovation in China: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region

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