环境规制工具对中国经济增长的影响——基于环境分权的门槛效应分析

Impact of Environmental Regulation Tools on the Economic Growth of China——Threshold Effect Analysis based on Environmental Decentralization

基于环境分权体制,使用2001—2012年中国30个省份的面板数据,运用系统广义矩估计考察环境规制工具的经济增长效应,并基于不同环境分权检验了环境规制工具与经济增长的非线性关系。研究结果表明:(1)环境分权下,命令控制型和公众参与型规制工具的经济促进效应由负转正,而市场激励型规制工具则由正转负;(2)三类环境规制工具对经济增长的影响均存在双重门槛效应,只有环境分权越过特定临界值时才能引致正向的经济增长效应;(3)在命令控制型规制工具上,有15个省份处于合理水平,而在市场激励型和公众参与型规制工具上,有8个省份处于合理水平。因此,为实现环境保护和经济协调发展,政府应合理优化规制工具组合和深化改革环境分权结构。

Based on the environmental decentralization system,this essay explores the economic growth effect of the environmental regulation tools and adopts the panel data from 30 Chinese provinces in 2001 to 2012.On the basis of applying the systemic GMM to examine the impact of the environmental regulation tools on the economic growth.The results show that：（1）under the environmental decentralization,the economic promotion effect of the command-and-control and the public-participatory regulation tools shifts from negative to positive,while that of the market-incentive regulation tools shifts from positive to negative.（2）the impact of these three kinds of environmental regulation tools on economic growth are all of dual threshold effects,and positive economic growth effect can only be achieved when the environmental decentralization exceeds the specific threshold.（3）there are 15 provinces with the data at the reasonable level for command-and-control regulation tools,and 8 provinces at the reasonable level for the market-incentive and the public-participatory regulation tolls.Therefore,the government shall reasonably optimize the combination of regulation tools and deepen the structure of powers in the reform environment,so as to achieve the environmental protection and harmonious economic growth.