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- Title
环境分权的城市绿色创新效应.
- Authors
张凡; 邵俊杰; 周力
- Abstract
As the combination of green development and innovation-driven national development strategies, green innovation will become an important engine for China to accelerate the establishment of a'dual circulation development pattern in which domestic economic cycle plays a leading role while international economic cycle remains its extension and supplement'. Based on the panel data of 215 cities from year 2003 to 2018, this paper empirically analyzed the impact and mechanism of environmental decentralization on urban green innovation by using the spatial difference-in-differences model and threshold model. The results showed that: ① Environmental decentralization promoted the increase of urban green patent authorization, but had no significant impact on the improvement of urban green productivity. This means that the overall impact of environmental decentralization on economic effects was still in the state of 'weak Porter Hypothesis'. The benefits brought by environmental decentralization to stimulate technological innovation and efficiency improvement were not enough to significantly offset the costs caused by environmental decentralization and improve green total factor productivity. The'strong Porter Hypothesis'was not tenable. ② While formulating laws and regulations suitable for local reality, the government tended to give play to the'innovation compensation effect'by increasing investment in scientific and technological R&D. However, due to the time lag of government R&D investment, it only promoted the improvement of green technology in the short term, and failed to improve green productivity. ③ The green innovation effect of environmental decentralization was affected by fiscal decentralization. When the government had less freedom to use fiscal funds, the impact of environmental decentralization on green innovation was constrained; when the government had greater freedom to use fiscal funds, environmental decentralization significantly improved the ability of green innovation. Therefore, in the context of green development, in order to improve the citys green innovation capacity, on the one hand, we should delegate environmental legislative power and improve local environmental laws and regulations. On the other hand, on the basis of improving relevant incentive supporting mechanisms, we should actively promote the degree of fiscal decentralization to match the management power division of central and regional environmental authorities.
- Publication
China Population Resources & Environment, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 12, p83
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12062/cpre.20210808