The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Industries in the Developed Area of China (特集モノづくりと環境のマネジメント(2))

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Economic growth and environmental problem are always paradoxical. As the environmental problem is becoming more and more serious in China, the government establishes more environmental regulations in order to reduce environment pollution. Therefore, figuring out the impact of environmental regulations on manufacturing industries is vital to the governments' policy making. However, former researches on the relationship between environment regulations and industrial performance are inconsistent. This paper introduces technology innovation and barriers to entry as mediators to explain the impact of environment regulations on industrial performance. Based on a panel database of Chinese manufacturing industries during 2001 to 2010, a few interesting findings are concluded. In China, on one hand, more environmental regulations reduce industrial performance because they increase the barriers to entry the industries. On the other hand, environmental regulations raise industrial performance by stimulating technology innovations. These also help us to explain the unconformity in the past literatures.
2012-06-05