Technological innovation;
Air pollution;
Energy consumption;
Resource mismatch;
RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT;
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE EVIDENCE;
CHANGE EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE;
RENEWABLE ENERGY;
PRODUCT PERFORMANCE;
CARBON EMISSIONS;
GREEN INNOVATION;
ECONOMIC-GROWTH;
DIFFUSION;
TRADE;
D O I:
10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121521
中图分类号:
F [经济];
学科分类号:
02 ;
摘要:
Technological innovation and environmental pollution are two contemporary issues in China. This paper analyses firm innovation's impact on air pollution using large, firm-level data sets from the Chinese industrial sector during the 1998-2012 period. The empirical results indicate that innovation significantly reduces firms' pollution discharges, and that the causal relationship still exists when propensity score matching, instrumental variables, and other approaches are used to address endogeneity. Further analysis indicates that innovation effects on firms' air pollution are heterogeneous across different industrial sectors, locations, and ownership types. The mechanism test reveals that decreasing energy consumption and misallocation of resources accounted for the observed pattern. This study's results hold important implications for reducing air pollution to improve environmental quality in China.
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Business School, Hunan University, Changsha,410082, China
Center for Resource and Environmental Management, Hunan University, Changsha,410082, ChinaBusiness School, Hunan University, Changsha,410082, China
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Guizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Big Data Applicat & Econ, Guiyang, Peoples R ChinaGuizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Big Data Applicat & Econ, Guiyang, Peoples R China
Yang, Shubo
Shen, Qiangqiang
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Zhongnan Univ Econ & Law, Sch Business Adm, Wuhan, Peoples R ChinaGuizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Big Data Applicat & Econ, Guiyang, Peoples R China
Shen, Qiangqiang
Jahanger, Atif
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Hainan Univ, Sch Econ, Haikou, Peoples R China
Inst Open Econ, Haikou, Peoples R ChinaGuizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Big Data Applicat & Econ, Guiyang, Peoples R China
Jahanger, Atif
Ye, Penghao
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Hainan Univ, Sch Econ, Haikou, Peoples R China
Inst Open Econ, Haikou, Peoples R ChinaGuizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Big Data Applicat & Econ, Guiyang, Peoples R China
Ye, Penghao
Zhang, Huafeng
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Guizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Big Data Applicat & Econ, Guiyang, Peoples R ChinaGuizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Big Data Applicat & Econ, Guiyang, Peoples R China
Zhang, Huafeng
Balsalobre-Lorente, Daniel
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Univ Castilla La Mancha, Dept Polit Econ & Publ Finance Econ & Business Sta, Ciudad Real, Spain
Univ Alicante, Dept Appl Econ, Alicante, SpainGuizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Big Data Applicat & Econ, Guiyang, Peoples R China