The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Upgrading Industrial Structureunder Fiscal Decentralization and Promotion Incentive

doi:10.13438/j.cnki.jdxb.2019.02.003

Abstract

Abstract: Currently,China's economic development is facing a severe bottleneck of resource and environmental constraints.It has been an important issue for academic circles and policy makers to achieve sustainable economic development relying on the upgrading of industrial structure.So,from the viewpoint of fiscal decentralization and promotion incentive,this paper tests the influence of environmental regulations on upgrading industrial structure using panel data from 31 provinces,municipalities and autonomous regions from 2000 to 2015 and spatial Dobbin metrological model.The results of this essay are as follows:(1) Separately,environmental regulations can significantly promote the upgrading of regional industrial structure;(2) Under the background of fiscal decentralization,the vertical imbalance of finance and the self-interest behavior of local officials,the environmental governance policies are deficient,which goes against the upgrading of regional industrial structure;(3) Under the promotion incentive mechanism of only considering GDP,the enforcement of environmental regulation will be incomplete,which will restrain the upgrading of regional industrial structure;(4) Regionally,the environmental regulations in the east,central and west China can significantly promote the upgrading of regional industrial structure.Moreover,the regulating effects of financial decentralization and promotion incentive of officials in the east,central and west China also present opposite characteristics.

Key words: environmental regulation, fiscal decentralization, promotion incentive, upgrading of an industrial structure

YOU Daming,ZHANG Yang,YUAN Baolong. The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Upgrading Industrial Structureunder Fiscal Decentralization and Promotion Incentive[J]. Journal of Jishou University（Social Sciences）, DOI: 10.13438/j.cnki.jdxb.2019.02.003.

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