Does technological innovation reduce water pollution intensity in the context of informal environmental regulation?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yadong Ma ◽  
Hongmei Cao ◽  
Yu Ma ◽  
Sijian Wu
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Pollution Intensity

scholarly journals How Does Environmental Regulation Affect the Relationship between FDI and Technological Innovation: From the Perspective of Technology Transactions

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1264
Author(s):  
Meng Zeng ◽  
Lihang Liu ◽  
Fangyi Zhou ◽  
Yigui Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Regulatory Effect ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Regional Heterogeneity ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Reduction Effect ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Many studies have found that FDI can reduce the pollutant emissions of host countries. At the same time, the intensity of environmental regulation would affect the emission reduction effect of FDI in the host country. This study aims to reveal the internal mechanisms of this effect. Specifically, this paper studies the impact of FDI on technological innovation in China’s industrial sectors from the perspective of technology transactions from 2001 to 2019, and then analyzes whether the intensity of environmental regulation can promote the relationship. Results indicate that FDI promotes technological innovation through technology transactions. In addition, it finds that the intensity of environmental regulation significantly positively moderates the relationship between FDI and technological innovation, which is achieved by positively moderating the FDI–technology transaction relationship. Regional heterogeneity analysis is further conducted, and results show that in the eastern and western regions of China, FDI can stimulate technological innovation within regional industrial sectors through technology trading. Moreover, environmental regulation has a significant positive regulatory effect on the above relationship, but these effects are not supported by evidence in the central region of China.

scholarly journals The effects of environmental regulation and technological innovation on green growth: A theoretical analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 04054
Author(s):  
Xuefei Xu ◽  
Lili Wang ◽  
Shang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Causal Chain ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Causality Chain

As green growth has attracted a great deal of attention due to the growing concern about the degradation of natural resources and environmental pollution in China, the questions of how to achieve it and which factors drive green growth have become hot topics. Environmental regulation and technological innovation are two main fulcrums in the realization of green growth. However, there is lacking a deeper understanding of the impact of environmental regulation and technological innovation on green growth in a methodological framework. Accordingly, this paper attempts to analyze how these factors affect the implementation of green growth in a model. The findings reveal that (1) in the short term, environmental regulation has inhibited green growth, but has a positive impact on green growth in the long run, (2) technological innovation plays a positive role in green growth improvement, and (3) the causality chain among regulation, technological innovation, and green growth is a typical mediation model. Technological innovation plays an important mediation role in the causal chain. This study not only enriches and deepens theories on green growth, but also successfully implements green growth practices and improve their performance.

Game Analysis of Environmental Regulation Performance of FDI Competition under Green Economy Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 2669-2674
Author(s):  
Wu Bin Sun ◽  
Zhou Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Target Function ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Matrix Game ◽  
Game Analysis ◽  
Mobility Factor ◽  
Revenue Function ◽  
Environment Regulation

Based on the perspective of green economy and FDI competition, this article establishes revenue matrix game, resolves game revenue function between stakeholders, by defining the performance of environmental regulation stakeholders variable. The results show that in the light of heavy economic performance as the target function, the local government has to relax the environment regulation as the means to fight the mobility factor motivation . In addition, the local government’s environmental regulation will actively promote enterprise technological innovation to improve the performance of environmental regulation.

scholarly journals The Mechanism And Effects of National Smart City Pilots In China On Environmental Pollution: Empirical Evidence Based On A DID Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoxiang Xu ◽  
Zhijiu Yang
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Allocation Efficiency ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
Fiscal Support ◽  
Reduction Effect

Abstract The policy of the national smart city (NSC) pilots, a new type of urbanization for future development, has been implemented in China in batches. This paper investigates the mechanism and effects of the NSC pilots on the environment. Using the prefecture-level panel data during 2004-2018 period, our dynamic difference-in-differences (DID) estimation shows that the NSC pilots causally mitigate air (water) pollution by 21.5% (23.3%). The mediating effect model indicates that the allocation efficiency and technological innovation play a partial mediating role in the impacting mechanism. After introducing the two mediating channels into the dynamic DID model, the reduction effect for air (water) pollution drops to 15.5% (17.3%). Comparatively, improving allocation efficiency instead of technological innovation takes the major mediating role in reducing air pollution, while water pollution the opposite. The result of city heterogeneity shows that cities with high human capital and fiscal support contribute to the reduction of environmental pollution. This study also provides some related policy suggestions by analyzing the initial mechanism and city heterogeneity of the NSC pilots.

Effects of heterogeneous environmental regulation on the control of water pollution discharge

2020 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Hanqing Hu ◽  
Hongmei Cao ◽  
Lili Zhang ◽  
Yu Ma ◽  
Sijian Wu
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Environmental Regulation
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