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1、JournalofEnvironmentalEconomicsandManagement68(2014)296–318ContentslistsavailableatScienceDirectJournalofEnvironmentalEconomicsandManagementjournalhomepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/jeemEnvironmentalpolicyandexports:EvidencefromChinesecitiesa,nbLauraHering,SandraPoncetaErasmusUniversity
2、RotterdamandTinbergenInstitute,TheNetherlandsbParisSchoolofEconomics(UniversitédeParis1)andCEPII,FrancearticleinfoabstractArticlehistory:WestudyenvironmentalregulationanditsrolefortradeinChina.Specifically,weassessReceived23September2013theeffectivenessofanenvironmentalpolicyinChinath
3、atintroducedstricterregulationsAvailableonline8July2014onsulfurdioxide(SO)emissionsintargetedcities.Toidentifythecausaleffectofthis2JELClassification:policyonexports,weusesectoralexportdataforapanelofChinesecitiesandexploitF10variationsinexportsbetweencitiesandsectors,overtime,and,ina
4、secondstep,betweenF18firmtypes.WefindarelativefallinsectoralexportsintargetedcitiesaftertheQ53implementationofthepolicy,whichissharperthemorepollutingtheindustry.Further,Q56wefindthattheobservedeffectismainlydrivenbyprivatelyownedfirms,whereasexportsofstate-ownedfirmsseemtobeunaffecte
5、dbythenewpolicy.ThisfindingisKeywords:consistentwiththepreferentialpoliticaltreatmentofstate-ownedfirmsinChina.Environmentalpolicy&2014ElsevierInc.Allrightsreserved.ExportperformanceChinaIntroductionInrecentyears,airpollutionhasbecomeamajorconcerninChina,withwide-reachingnegativeeffec
6、tsonnotonlyhealthandtheenvironment,butalsotheeconomy.AirpollutioninBeijingachievedinternationalnotorietyinJanuary2013,spikingatunprecedentedlevelswithconventionalmeasuresbeing“beyondindex”(TheEconomist,2013).TherecentnegativefocusonurbanairqualityhasharmedChina,whichhaslongbeencritici
7、zedinternationallyforitshalf-heartedcommitmenttoenvironmentalprotection.However,Chinahasintroducedaseriesofregulatorypoliciesoverrecentdecades,despiteitsimageasabadstudent.1Concernsthatenvironmentalproblemsmayactasabrakeoneconomicgrowthhaveproducedanambitiousarrayofenvironmental-prote
8、ction