The effects of three types of China's official turnover on air quality: A regression discontinuity study

Chen, Liqiang; Gao, Ming

doi:10.1111/grow.12406

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“…The reason is that we consider lagged factors when measuring the EPOT; additionally, our research is based on the EPOT in prefecture-level cities, and more than 99% of the new directors in our sample come from a local city or a city or county under the jurisdiction of a local city. Chen and Gao (2020) believe that due to their “geographic” advantages, locally transferred officials do not completely sever their established political connections, which weakens the effect of policy uncertainty. Therefore, for local companies, the duration of environmental policy uncertainty is relatively short and the impact on GI activities is also temporary.…”

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Environmental policy uncertainty and corporate green innovation: evidence from China

Huang

Wang

Jiang

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PurposePrevious studies have mostly discussed the impact of environmental policy on enterprise innovation, but the discussion on how turbulence in environmental policy may affect firms' green innovation has been insufficient. This paper explores the effect of environmental policy uncertainty on corporate green innovation in the turnover of environmental protection officials (EPOT) context.Design/methodology/approachThe authors manually collected the data on the EPOT of 280 Chinese prefecture-level cities, and used the Poisson regression model to conduct empirical analyses based on the panel data of 1472 Chinese listed manufacturing firms from 2008 to 2017.FindingsThe results show that environmental policy uncertainty leads firms to reduce their green patent applications only for green invention patent applications. Such an effect is more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises (non-SOEs). In addition, when the new directors of the Ecology and Environmental Bureau take office through promotions or are no more than 55 years old, the negative effect is more obvious, but there is no significant difference regardless of whether new directors have worked in environmental protection departments.Originality/valueFirst, this paper supplements the research on the antecedents of corporate green innovation from the perspective of environmental policy uncertainty and extends the applications of real options theory. Second, this paper expands the research on the government–business relationship from the EPOT perspective.

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“…Previous studies show that the age of officials has a heterogeneous impact on officials' environmental control behavior (Chen and Gao, 2020). As an implicit factor shaping promotion incentives (Li and Zhou, 2005;Shi et al, 2018), EPOs' age may also affect the effect of the EPOT on corporate green behavior.…”

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Environmental policy uncertainty and corporate green innovation: evidence from China

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Wang

Jiang

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“…RDD has been widely applied to the assessment research of environmental policy effectiveness [see ( 27 , 31 , 32 )]. Following prior studies ( 12 , 27 , 33 ), this study utilizes sharp regression discontinuity (SRD) model to investigate the effect of CEPI on air pollution of cities in China. According to the principle of SRD and related literature ( 23 ), the specific SRD model is set as follows:…”

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Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection

Feng

Cheng

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Central environmental protection inspection (CEPI) is a major institutional innovation in China's environmental governance, but its effectiveness in improving air quality is still unclear. However, the effectiveness of CEPI is of great significance and can be regarded as an important reference for deepening the reform of environmental governance system in China. This article takes the CEPI as a quasi-natural experiment and uses the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and the difference-in-differences (DID) methods to examine the effectiveness of this policy. The study found that the first round of CEPI reduced the air pollution of cities in the inspected provinces in a short time. Moreover, this positive policy effect persisted in the aftermath of the inspection, but this long-term effect is mainly reflected in PM10 and SO2. Heterogeneity analysis showed that CEPI was only effective in reducing air pollutants of industry-oriented cities, cities in Central and Eastern China, and cities with large or small population size. The moderating effect analysis indicated that a healthy relationship (close and clean) between the local governments and businesses was conducive to reducing air pollution. The research confirmed the presence of “selective” reduction of air pollutants in the long run caused by CEPI, thereby providing new inspiration for the improvement of campaign-style environmental governance and the follow-up CEPI work.

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“…At the same time, the traditional Chinese concept that "Every new sovereign brings his own courtiers. ", so when a new governing o cial takes o ce, a new government team will be formed and corresponding departmental o cials will be replaced, which will lead to a reallocation of political resources (Ni, 2019;Chen & Gao, 2020;Acemoglu, 2017). In summary, the turnover of local o cials leads to changes in economic policies and the reallocation of political resources in the institutional environment.…”

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Official Turnover and Corporate ESG Practices: Evidence from China

Yang¹,

Xu²,

Li³

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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In recent years, environmental, social, governance (ESG) have gradually received widespread attention.However, few studies have focused on the impact of situational factors on corporate ESG practice decisions. Based on this, this paper analyzes a sample of 9428 observations of Chinese A-share listed rms during the period 2009-2019 in an attempt to explore the impact of local o cials' turnover on corporate ESG practices, and analyze the boundary effects of this impact at three levels: regional, industry, and corporate. Our results suggest that: (1) Turnover of local o cials can lead to changes in economic policies and reallocation of political resources, which can stimulate companies' "risk aversion motive" and "development motive" and thus promote their ESG practices; (2) This effect will be enhanced by the high level of government intervention, the high level of competition in the industry, and the private sector. (3) Further test nds that turnover of local o cials can have a signi cant impact on corporate ESG only when the o cials are abnormal turnover and when the regional economic development is good in the current period. This paper enriches research related to decision-making scenarios of corporate ESG practices from a macro-institutional perspective.

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The effects of three types of China's official turnover on air quality: A regression discontinuity study

Cited by 11 publications

References 58 publications

Environmental policy uncertainty and corporate green innovation: evidence from China

Environmental policy uncertainty and corporate green innovation: evidence from China

Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection

Official Turnover and Corporate ESG Practices: Evidence from China

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