异质型环境规制与中国经济增长质量——行政命令与市场手段孰优孰劣?

Heterogeneous Environmental Regulation and the Quality of China′s Economic Growth:Which is Better,Administrative Order or Market Instruments?

基于2000—2017年中国省际面板数据,从效率、结构、稳定、环境、民生、分配等六维度构建衡量地区经济增长质量的指标评价体系,考察不同类型环境规制工具经济增长质量效应的异质性。研究发现:命令型环境规制的优势体现在经济增长效率效应、产业结构升级效应和绿色发展效应,缺陷在于会降低发展稳定性和收入分配公平性;市场型环境规制的优势在于福利效应,且不会显著降低发展稳定性和收入分配公平;在综合作用影响下,市场型环境规制的综合经济增长质量效应高于命令型。因此,不同类型环境规制工具各有利弊,政府决策者应因地制宜,结合地方核心发展目标,科学选择环境规制工具,推动经济高质量增长。

Based on provincial panel data from 2000 to 2017,this study constructs an indicator evaluation system measuring the quality of regional economic growth from six dimensions:efficiency,structure,stability,environment,people′s livelihood,and distribution.Then it conducts empirical research on the heterogeneity of the impact exerted by different environmental regulation tools on the quality of economic growth.The results show that the advantages of command environmental regulation are reflected in three aspects of eco-efficiency effect,industrial structure upgrading effect and green development effect,while the shortcoming is that it will reduce development stability and fairness of income distribution;the advantage of market-based environmental regulation lies in the welfare effect without significantly reducing development stability and income distribution equity;under the influence of comprehensive effects,the quality of comprehensive economic growth of market-based environmental regulation is higher than that of command environmental regulation.Therefore,this study believes that different types of environmental regulation tools have their own advantages and disadvantages.Policymakers should make decisions based on local conditions,combine local core development goals,and scientifically select environmental regulation tools to promote high-quality economic growth.