中国式行政集权的企业减排效应——基于撤县设区改革的微观分析视角

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Abstract It was of great practical significance to identify the influence path of the upward shift of environmental jurisdiction in the centralized reform between cities and counties on the emission behavior of enterprises, and to solve the negative externality of environmental pollution caused by the localized management mode under the decentralized system, based on the balanced panel data of 1014 industrial enterprises in China from 1998 to 2013. The empirical results showed that the reform of removing counties and setting up districts increased the COD removal and reduced SO₂ emission, which showed that the reform played a role in restraining the emission behavior of enterprises. The mechanism research showed that the reform of removing counties and setting up districts could achieve the effect of emission reduction by improving the total factor productivity of enterprises or reducing the output of enterprises. Heterogeneity analysis showed that the enterprise emission reduction effect of the reform of removing counties and setting up districts was more obvious in non-state-owned enterprises, small enterprises, southern regions and central and western regions. A series of robustness tests were passed, such as replacing by county data, deleting special samples, and using the distance between county and city center as instrumental variable. Therefore, appropriate incentives and penalties should be set up to ensure that local governments scientifically implemented the reform plan, and carried out market-oriented reforms in the northern region to create a good business environment, while paying attention to the market demand of small enterprises and providing effective financial and talent support.

Key words： the reform of removing counties and setting up districts emission behavior of enterprises total factor productivity enterprise output

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LIU Jun,LUO Shan-yuan,WEI Guang-long. The enterprise emission reduction effect of Chinese administrative centralization——Based on the micro analysis perspective of the reform of removing counties and establishing districts[J]. CHINA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCECE, 2023, 43(7): 3796-3807.

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