报告题目:Going Green In China: Firms’ Responses to stricter environmental regulations
报告地点:翡翠湖校区科教楼B座1005
报 告 人:樊海潮(复旦大学)
主办单位:威斯尼斯人5845cc国际官网
报告人简介:
复旦大学威斯尼斯人5845cc国际官网教授,香港科技大学经济学博士,国家级人才项目获得者,主要从事国际经济与贸易理论和实证研究,在国内外知名经济学期刊《经济研究》《管理世界》《世界经济》《经济学(季刊)》《Economic Journal》《Economic Theory》《Journal of Development Economics》《Journal of International Economics》《Review of Economics and Statistics》等发表多篇高水平论文。
内容摘要:
This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan. Using a difference-in-differences framework based on a comprehensive firm-level dataset, we find that more stringent environmental regulations faced by firms are positively associated with a greater probability of reducing COD emissions; also, there exists an evident heterogeneous effect across industries with different pollution intensities. Stricter environmental regulations also account for the sharp decline in firms' profits, capital, and labor. After executing a complete chain of tests of the underlying mechanisms, we find that firms rely more on recycling and abatement investment than on innovations when meeting environmental requirements.