The Relationship between Environmental Regulation and Green Total Factor Productivity in China: An Empirical Study Based on the Panel Data of 177 Cities

doi:10.3390/ijerph17155287

	The Relationship between Environmental Regulation and Green Total Factor Productivity in China: An Empirical Study Based on the Panel Data of 177 Cities
	Zhao, Mingliang 1; Liu, Fangyi 1; Sun, Wei 2,3; Tao, Xin 4
刊名	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
	2020-08-01
卷号	17 期号:15 页码:19
关键词	industrialization environmental regulation green total factor productivity systematic GMM
DOI	10.3390/ijerph17155287
通讯作者	Sun, Wei(sunw@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Promoting the coordinated development of industrialization and the environment is a goal pursued by all of the countries of the world. Strengthening environmental regulation (ER) and improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) are important means to achieving this goal. However, the relationship between ER and GTFP has been debated in the academic circles, which reflects the complexity of this issue. This paper empirically tested the relationship between ER and GTFP in China by using panel data and a systematic Gaussian Mixed Model (GMM) of 177 cities at the prefecture level. The research shows that the relationship between ER and GTFP is complex, which is reflected in the differences and nonlinearity between cities with different monitoring levels and different economic development levels. (1) The relationship between ER and GTFP is linear and non-linear in different urban groups. A positive linear relationship was found in the urban group with high economic development level, while a U-shaped nonlinear relationship was found in other urban groups. (2) There are differences in the inflection point value and the variable mean of ER in different urban groups, which have different promoting effects on GTFP. In key monitoring cities and low economic development level cities, the mean value of ER had not passed the inflection point, and ER was negatively correlated with GTFP. The mean values of ER variables in the whole sample, the non-key monitoring and the middle economic development level cities had all passed the inflection point, which gradually promoted the improvement of GTFP. (3) Among the control variables of the different city groups, science and technology input and the financial development level mainly had positive effects on GTFP, while foreign direct investment (FDI) and fixed asset investment variables mainly had negative effects.
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA19040401] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41671124] ; Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province[ZR2019QG006]
WOS关键词	FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT ; ECONOMIC-GROWTH ; SERVICES ; OIL ; FDI
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000558998700001
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/158100]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Sun, Wei
作者单位	1.Shandong Univ Finance & Econ, Dept Int Econ & Trade, Jinan 250002, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Reg Sustainable Dev Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Univ Buffalo State Univ New York, Dept Geog, Buffalo, NY 14261 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhao, Mingliang,Liu, Fangyi,Sun, Wei,et al. The Relationship between Environmental Regulation and Green Total Factor Productivity in China: An Empirical Study Based on the Panel Data of 177 Cities[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,2020,17(15):19.
APA	Zhao, Mingliang,Liu, Fangyi,Sun, Wei,&Tao, Xin.(2020).The Relationship between Environmental Regulation and Green Total Factor Productivity in China: An Empirical Study Based on the Panel Data of 177 Cities.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,17(15),19.
MLA	Zhao, Mingliang,et al."The Relationship between Environmental Regulation and Green Total Factor Productivity in China: An Empirical Study Based on the Panel Data of 177 Cities".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 17.15(2020):19.