Does Environmental Regulation Promote the Upgrade of the Export Technology Structure: Evidence from China

被引:9
作者
Yang, Yingzhu [1 ]
Wang, Qunhao [2 ]
Gao, Yang [3 ]
Zhao, Lexiang [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Peking Univ, Sch Econ, Dept Econ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Int Business & Econ, Sch Int Trade & Econ, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
[3] China Rd & Bridge Corp, Beijing 100011, Peoples R China
[4] China Investment Corp Postdoctoral Ctr, Beijing 100010, Peoples R China
[5] Tsinghua Univ, PBC Sch Finance, Dept Finance, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
关键词
environmental regulation; export technology structure; export technical complexity; innovation; TRADE; GREEN; COMPETITIVENESS; SOPHISTICATION; PRODUCTIVITY; INNOVATION; GROWTH; IMPACT;
D O I
10.3390/su141610283
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Rapid economic growth is accompanied by the continuous degradation of the environmental quality, low efficiency of natural-resource utilization and increasing health losses. With the growing environmental problems, countries in the world have gradually attached importance to environmental protection and regulation. As an effective means of environmental protection by the government, environmental regulation's role in high-quality development cannot be understated. On the basis of a two-way fixed-effects model, the panel data of 276 prefecture-level cities of China during the period 2007-2016 were used to explore the effect of environmental regulation on China's export technology structure, and the influence mechanism between the two. Moreover, panel quantile regression was used to examine the heterogeneity of the effect of environmental regulation on the export technology structures of Chinese cities with distinct technological levels. The empirical results prove that environmental regulation can boost the upgrade of China's export technology structure by encouraging innovation. Furthermore, the impact of environmental regulation on China's export technology structure changes according to the export technical complexity. With the improvement in the export technology structure, the boost effect appears as an inverted U-shaped change.
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