Pollution Transfer under Intergovernmental Competition: Suppression or Opportunity
Hongmin Zhang,
Jinghua Zhang
Abstract:In recent years, the Sustainable Development Goals have introduced a “race to the top” mechanism to complement the “race to the bottom” in local governance and have an impact on pollution. This study utilizes the environmentally oriented accreditation of National Civilized Cities as a policy shock and applies the PSM-DID method to identify the pollution-relocation effects among cities triggered by the competition in local governance. The results indicate that environmentally oriented intergovernmental competit… Show more
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