Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
Volume 86, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2020.106467
Keywords
Environmental regulation; Pollution transfer; Enterprise migration; Innovation compensation effect; Compliance cost effect; Environmental co-governance
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71803102]
- Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China [17YJC790027, 18YJC790086]
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Environmental regulation and environmental co-governance have significant impacts on pollution transfer. Environmental regulation can reduce the probability of pollution transfer, while environmental co-governance can decrease enterprise migration and improve the efficiency of environmental governance.
Pollution transfer is widespread in various countries. If differences in environmental regulation intensity exist across different regions in a country, pollution transfer may occur. Based on data from Chinese enterprises, this study constructs a comprehensive index of environmental regulation and the degree of environmental co-governance at the enterprise level and uses a panel probit model, the two-stage least squares method, and an interaction regression model to assess the effect of environmental regulation and environmental co-governance on pollution transfer. The probability of enterprise migration increases as environmental regulation intensity increases, confirming the pollution transfer effect of environmental regulation. The analysis of the influencing mechanism shows that environmental regulation can reduce the probability of pollution transfer through the innovation compensation effect and improve the probability of enterprise migration through the compliance cost effect. In addition, under the condition of established environmental regulation, environmental co-governance can reduce the probability of enterprise migration, inhibit the transfer of pollution to nearby areas, and improve the efficiency of environmental governance. This study is conducive to assessing the policy effectiveness of environmental regulation and provides a reference for other countries regarding pollution transfer.
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