Environmental regulation and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Do environmental regulation measures matter?
By Jing Yang, Huanxiu Guo, Beibei Liu, Rui Shi, Bing Zhang, Weili Ye. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018
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Abstract This paper examines the how new manufacturing firms choose locations in response to the environmental regulations in Jiangsu, China. In particular, we utilize three representative measures of the environmental regulations to test the consistence of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH). The dramatic results indicate that different measures of environmental regulation lead to different conclusions of the PHH. However, firms' relocation patterns are common and consistent, i.e., new polluting firms are more likely to be driven by the government environmental mandates to northern Jiangsu, where the pollution abatement cost is high. This pattern is consistent with the industrial planning of the province, suggesting that local government may use environmental regulations to achieve economic objectives. More comprehensive and equitable policy design is thus recommended to address the problems of environmental equity in China.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries (2019, background): “The reduction in the rigour of environmental laws might be associated with environmental degradation, and various researchers have identified this issue (Lucas et al., 1992; Gray and Shadbegian, 2003; Reijnders, 2003; Ren et al., 2018; Yang et al., 2018).”
- Economic growth, renewable energy consumption, and ecological footprint: Exploring the role of environmental regulations and democracy in sustainable development (2021, background): “In the Chinese context, Yang et al. (2018) disclosed that environmental regulations are connected with the relocation of firms to the region with weak ER.”