环境规制与企业生产率:出口目的地真的很重要吗?

Environmental Regulation and Enterprise Productivity: Does the Destination Really Matter?

本文根据2000-2006年中国工业企业数据和进出口海关数据,采用Heckman两阶段选择模型考察了环境规制与企业出口目的地选择行为之间的关系,并进一步检验了环境规制对出口发达国家企业生产率的影响。研究结果表明,环境规制促进了企业出口发达国家,并且使出口发达国家企业的生产率得到更大幅度的提高;基于工具变量法及扩大发达国家或地区界定范围的估计结果都进一步验证了结论的稳健性;环境规制对企业出口目的地选择行为的影响并没有因为企业所有制的不同而存在差异。

Based on China＇s industrial enterprises data and import-export trade data from 2000 to 2006, this paper tests the effect of environmental regulation on enterprises＇ choices of export destination and the productivity of those enterprises ex- porting to developed countries. The results show that environmental regulation not only promotes enterprises＇ exports to devel- oped countries, but also helps to improve the productivity of those enterprises exporting to developed countries. These results are further proved by the estimation based on the method of instrumental vaiables and by expanding the scope of the developed countries and regions. Besides, the effect of environemtnal regulation on enterprlses＇choices of export destination is not influ- enced by the differences in the corporate ownership.