Industrial Ownership and Environmental Performance: Evidence from China

By Hua Wang, Yanhong Jin. 2002

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This study explores the differences in pollution control performance of industries with different types of ownership – State owned (SOE), collectively or community owned (COE), and privately owned (POE). A theoretic analysis is conducted and followed by an empirical assessment with Chinese data. The empirical results show that the COEs in China have better environmental performances in water pollution discharges than the SOEs and the POEs, suggesting that COEs may internalize environmental externalities.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Harm the Host Country’s Environment? Evidence from China (2008, unknown): “Wang and Jin (2002) find similar results in a study examining firm level pollution discharge in more than 1000 firms in China.”
Financial development and environmental quality: The way forward (2016, background): “Wang and Jin (2007) and Bello and Abimbola (2010) confirm that financial development induces listed companies to use energy-efficient technology, which consequently helps reduce carbon emissions.”
Foreign Direct Investment, Human Capital and Environmental Pollution in China (2011, background): “In developing countries the informal regulation is in effect no matter how the formal regulation is absent or effective (Wang and Jin 2007), and its soft budget constraints might reduce the managers’ responsiveness to pollution charges.”
Foreign direct investment and environmental pollution in China: a simultaneous equations estimation* (2010, background): “Our estimation results generally support that there is a positive role of FDI in reducing pollution emissions in China, which is consistent with the findings reported in Wang and Jin (2002) and Liang (2006).”
Political Connections and Industrial Pollution: Evidence Based on State Ownership and Environmental Levies in China (2016, background): “Second, and more important, previous literature documents that, even after controlling for firm characteristics, SOEs tend to pollute more than other firms (Wang and Jin 2007; Jiang et al. 2014).”
Does Higher Economic and Financial Development Lead to Environmental Degradation: Evidence from BRIC Countries (2009, unknown): “Wang and Yanhong (2007) find similar results in a study examining firm level pollution discharge in more than 1000 firms in China.”
Does Environmental Information Disclosure Benefit Waste Discharge Reduction? Evidence from China (2014, background): “Studies of environmental regulation policies in China and their effects have primarily concentrated on administrative control and fee levying for pollution discharge (Dasgupta et al. 2001; Wang and Wheeler 2003, 2005; Wang and Jin 2007; Wu 2010).”