摘要
公众环境诉求是倒逼企业污染减排的重要力量,同时也是政府环境规制水平提升的重要推力。文章先采用动态优化模型,在环境规制政策差异性和不确定性条件下,探讨了公众环境诉求对企业污染排放的影响机理,在此基础上将中国工业企业数据库、中国工业企业污染排放数据库和专利统计数据库匹配,得到1998-2012年41.42万个样本观测值,并通过百度环境搜索构建企业层面的公众环境诉求指标,就公众环境诉求对企业污染排放的影响及作用路径进行了实证检验。结果发现,公众环境诉求的增加有助于抑制企业污染排放,工具变量法等稳健性考察进一步验证了该结论的稳健性;公众环境诉求对企业污染排放的影响具有即时性、规模异质性、产权属性异质性、区域异质性和行业异质性,小型、非国有、中西部以及重污染型企业更倾向于"诉求漠视";公众环境诉求的增加有利于促进政府加大环境规制力度。文章在丰富现有理论研究的同时,为提升公众环境参与水平和建立多元参与的环境治理体系提供了思路。
Pollution prevention is an essential mission during the transition of China’s economy from high-speed growth to high-quality growth, which requires not only the supervision by governmental macrocontrol, but also the pollution reduction initiative of production entities. The existing literature empirically shows the critical function of publication participation in pollution prevention, and the public appeals to environmental protection are an important force to restrict enterprise pollution emissions, as well as improve government environmental regulation. Therefore, it is critically important to clarify the channel of public appeals determining environmental regulation, the mechanism of public appeals affecting enterprise pollution emissions, and the impact of public appeals on the heterogeneity among enterprise indicators, such as size, property rights, geographic location, industry, etc.This paper applies dynamic optimization approaches to investigate the mechanism of public appeals affecting enterprise pollution emissions, within the framework of the heterogeneity and uncertainty of environmental policies. Empirically, this paper summarizes 414,211 observations from the China Industrial Enterprise Database, the Industrial Enterprise Pollution Emission Database and the Patent Database, and the index of public environmental appeals at the enterprise level from Baidu environmental search. Furthermore, this paper examines the impact of public appeals on enterprise pollution reduction based on the Ordinary Least Squares(OLS) method and the Instrumental Variable(IV) method, controlling the impact of corporate effect, industry effect, and year effect.The empirical results show that the high intensity of public environmental appeals significantly decreases the pollution emission level of enterprises, and the results are also significant in the robustness test. The lag public environmental appeals lose their impact on the pollution emissions of the current period, indicating that the impact of public environmental appeals on enterprise pollution emissions is time-sensitive. On the other side, the impact of public environmental appeals on enterprise pollution emissions shows heterogeneity in size,property rights, geographic locations and industry. With the increase of public environmental appeals and the increase of public opinion pressure on emission reduction, the government will strengthen environmental regulation.This paper complements the existing literature on the theoretical research of environmental protection,and widens the boundary of studies on public environmental participation promotion and environmental governance system improvement. Firstly, this paper shows the positive impact of public environmental appeals on enterprise pollution emission reduction, and provides empirical support for the improvement of public participation in the civil environmental protection system. Moreover, considering the heterogeneity of positive impact,it is essential to emphasize the cooperation among large and medium-sized enterprises, state-owned enterprises, enterprises in the eastern region, and non-key polluting enterprises, as well as the improvement of pollution management capability of other enterprises. Finally, government environmental regulation develops a critical bridge between public environmental appeals and enterprise pollution emission behavior.
作者
李欣
顾振华
徐雨婧
Li Xin;Gu Zhenhua;Xu Yujing(College of Business and Economics,Shanghai Business School,Shanghai 200235,China;School of Economics,Shanghai University,Shanghai 200444,China)
出处
《财经研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第1期34-48,共15页
Journal of Finance and Economics
基金
国家社会科学基金一般项目(17BJY046)
上海市哲学社会科学规划课题青年项目(2018EGL017)。
关键词
公众环境诉求
动态优化分析
企业污染排放
环境规制
百度环境搜索
public environmental appeals
dynamic optimization analysis
enterprise pollution emissions
environmental regulation
Baidu environmental search
作者简介
李欣(1986-),女,山东潍坊人,上海商学院商务经济学院讲师;通讯作者:顾振华(1987-),男,江苏常州人,上海商学院商务经济学院讲师;徐雨婧(1991-),女,江西景德镇人,上海大学经济学院博士研究生。
