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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
卷 66, 期 9, 页码 1813-1840出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2022.2042795
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environmental regulation; economic growth; energy intensity; industrial structure; Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration
This article investigates the impact of environmental regulation on economic growth in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and finds an inverted U-shaped relationship between the two. The empirical results provide an empirical supplement to the existing theoretical framework and highlight energy intensity and industrial structure as valid transmission paths for the economic effect of environmental regulation.
The governments of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration have introduced a series of environmental policies to ameliorate pollution problems, but there are concerns that such a move can negatively impact the economy. In this article, panel data for 13 prefecture-level cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2003 to 2018 are used to investigate the influencing mechanism of environmental regulation on economic growth. The empirical results indicate an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental regulation. In a sense, the non-linear relationship implies that the Porter hypothesis and the compliance cost hypothesis apply to different levels of environmental stringency, respectively, which results in an empirical supplement to the existing theoretical framework. Furthermore, energy intensity and industrial structure are valid transmission paths for the economic effect of environmental regulation, despite their opposite directions. Overall, a win-win situation of economic prosperity and ecological improvement can be achieved through the implementation of appropriate environmental regulation.
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