Air Pollution, Government Pollution Regulation, and Industrial Production in China

作     者：CAO Dong RAMIREZ Carlos D. CAO Dong;RAMIREZ Carlos D.

作者机构：School of Economics and ManagementXidian UniversityXi’an 710071China Department of EconomicsGeorge Mason UniversityFairfaxVAUnited States 

出 版 物：《Journal of Systems Science & Complexity》 (系统科学与复杂性学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第33卷第4期

页      面：1064-1079页

核心收录：

学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 07[理学] 070602[理学-大气物理学与大气环境] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.71303181 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No.2014M550864 Research Projects on Major Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Social Sciences Community in Shaanxi Province(2019XY004) partially supported by China Scholarship Council under Grant No.201406965014 while the first author was visiting George Mason University funds from Hunan Service Industry Development Research Center under Grant No.18FWYZD01 

主　　题：pollution. pollution nationwide 

摘      要：Over the last four decades,a severe deterioration in air quality has accompanied China’s rapid *** a result,the Chinese government has implemented stricter policies and regulation to control air *** this paper,the authors create a measure of government policies on air pollution by tracking all pollution-related government announcements in Chinese *** authors then use this variable,along with measures of actual pollution,to investigate how air pollution,industrial production,and government policies on air pollution are *** authors conduct this investigation nationwide,as well as in five large cities in China.A vector autoregression model suggests that,nationwide,government policies seem to decrease air pollution without significantly affecting industrial ***,the effect appears to be short-lived,dissipating after a few *** addition,the authors find that the dynamic relationship among these variables differs by *** instance,following an adverse air quality shock in Beijing,government efforts to control pollution seem to have an ameliorating city-wide effect,decreasing local air pollution in subsequent *** Shanghai and Guangzhou,while the local government reacts to adverse air pollution shocks,the ameliorating effects are not statistically *** Chengdu and Shenyang,the authors detect no significant local government reaction to adverse air pollution ***,in these cities,local government policies do not impart a statistically measurable effect on air pollution.