Journal
CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 1837-1849Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-021-02070-7
Keywords
Environmental regulation; Green total factor productivity; Regional integration; Pollutant emission; Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index
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- Chinese National Funding of Social Sciences [15BGL067]
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This study focuses on the impact of a city's regional integration and environmental regulation on green total factor productivity, proposing an index to measure the degree of a single city's integration into a region. Empirical analysis shows that a city's regional integration can buffer the relationship between environmental regulation and green total factor productivity, significantly affecting the city's green growth.
In recent years, China's economy has shown a trend of coordinated regional development. The integrated construction of urban agglomeration as a space carrier has placed the coordinated governance of the regional environment on the agenda. As such, we need to determine the effect of a city's degree of regional integration on environmental regulation and green total factor productivity. To this end, a single-city regional integration index based on commodity retail price index is constructed to measure the degree of regional integration. Different from the traditional indexes that measure the integration degree of multiple economies, the proposed index aims to measure the integration degree of a single city into a region. This study also examines the effect of the city' degree of regional integration on the relationship between environmental regulation and green total factor productivity using panel data on the Yangtze River Delta's urban agglomeration from 2003 to 2016 for empirical analysis. The results reveal the existence of a positive U-shaped relationship between environmental regulation and green total factor productivity, where the city's degree of regional integration buffers this relationship. Differing from existed papers, this study provides an index to measure the degree of a single city's integration into a region and identifies the buffer effect of this regional integration on the city's green growth based on the urban agglomeration level. [GRAPHICS] .
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