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On Environment-Economy Effects of Environmental Regulation

WANG Ke-qiang,LI Guo-xiang   

  1. (School of Public Economy and Management,Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200082,China)
  • Received:2019-09-03 Online:2020-02-12

Abstract: Taking data of 30 provincial administrative regions (except Tibet, Hong Kong,Macao and Taiwan) of China in 2008-2016 years as an example, the paper analyzes the threshold of regional environmental efficiency in the process of environmental regulation influences economic development, explores the different effects of regional environmental efficiency changes in the process of environmental regulation affects economic development with threshold regression model, and also analyzes robustness. This study found that:the cross terms of environmental regulation and regional environmental efficiency have an influence on economic development, which showed “U”- shaped relationship; in high environment efficiency areas, with the impact of environmental regulation, regional environmental efficiency can quickly eliminate the negative impact of environmental regulation on economic development; in developed areas, with the impact of environmental regulation, regional environmental efficiency can strengthen the positive effect of environmental regulation on economic development in a large extent. Therefore, we should formulate appropriate environmental regulation strategies, increase R&D investment, improve regional technological innovation capability, promote production engineering and technology improvement, and achieve “all-win result” of environmental efficiency and economic development under the pressure of environmental regulation.

Key words: Key words:environmental regulation, environmental efficiency, technological innovation, economic development