绿色政绩考核能否推动制造业出口产品质量升级

Can Green Performance Evaluation Promote Manufacturing Export Product Quality Upgrading

本文以2006年环境绩效纳入地方政府政绩考核为准自然实验,利用双重差分模型和2003—2015年中国工业企业微观数据和城市面板数据的匹配数据,探讨了地方政府绿色政绩考核对制造业出口产品质量升级的影响。结果显示,对地方政府进行绿色政绩考核显著促进了中国制造业出口产品质量升级,且该效应在环境规制程度越高的城市越为明显。进一步分析发现,绿色政绩考核主要通过推动科技创新和制造业高级化,降低企业成本、提升企业全要素生产率、增加企业可获得的中间品种类等机制对企业出口产品质量产生影响,且该影响效果因企业贸易类型、企业所有制类型和企业所在城市等级差异而具有明显的异质性特征。

Based on the quasi-natural experiment which brought environmental performance into local government performance assessment in 2006,this paper discusses the impact of local officials'green performance assessment on manufacturing export product quality upgrading by using the difference in difference model,with the matched data of China's industrial enterprises'micro data and urban panel data from 2003 to 2015.The result shows that the green performance appraisal of local officials significantly promotes manufacturing export product quality of China's firms,and the effect is more obvious in cities with higher levels of environmental regulation.Further analysis shows that green performance evaluation improves manufacturing export product quality by promoting technology innovation,upgrading manufactural structure,reducing enterprise costs,increasing enterprise total factor productivity and intermediate varieties available to the enterprise.The above effects have obvious heterogeneous characteristics,which mainly depends on the type of enterprise trade,the type of firms'ownership,and the level of firms'registration city.