1. 地方政府环境政策创新与企业环境绩效——基于长三角地区河长制政策的微观实证.
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李雪松, 周 敏, and 汪成鹏
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WATERSHEDS , *WATER pollution , *INDUSTRIAL productivity , *SUSTAINABLE development , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *RIVER pollution , *ENVIRONMENTAL reporting - Abstract
The river chief system is a policy innovation to deal with water pollution implemented by local governments from the bottom and the central government from the top in China. It is of theoretical and practical significance for preventing water pollution, protecting the water environment, and building ecological civilization to comprehensively review the diffusion mechanism of the river chief system and empirically test its implementation effect and influence mechanism. We used the DID model to evaluate the impact of the river chief system on water pollution based on the micro-enterprise data of the Yangtze River Delta matched with the statistical database of in‑ dustrial enterprises and the green development database. We found that the result did not satisfy the common trend hypothesis, so we used the multi-period DDD model to identify the implementation impact of the river chief system on the discharge of water pollutants in enterprises and to examine the transmission mechanism of its impact on pollution discharge. The results showed that: ① The river chief system had a significant impact on the reduction of water pollutants in the water pollution industry and could significantly prevent water pollution in the Yangtze River Delta. ② The implementation of the river chief system could improve corporate environmental perfor‑ mance by increasing investment in environmental innovation and reducing production, while reducing their total factor productivity in the short term. ③ The implementation impact of the river chief system had a heterogeneous ownership and policy motivation, which had a stronger regulatory effect on private enterprises. State-owned enterprises with stronger environmental awareness had a greater selfdrive for emission reduction, but the regulatory effect on state-owned enterprises was weak. The enterprises in the region that actively implemented the river chief system had better emission reduction and pollution control effects, while the implementation of the river chief system at the request of the superior government weakened the impact of the river chief system policy. In the process of fully im‑ plementing the river chief system, local governments should continue to fully implement the policy, guide enterprises to continuously in‑ crease innovation investment to improve their pollution control ability through technological upgrading, enhance their environmental awareness through strengthening social supervision, and actively carry out appropriate innovation on the environment protection system so as to improve the motivation and subjective initiative of governments at all levels to strictly implement the river chief system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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