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The impact of environmental regulation on regional economic growth: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

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  • Jiajun He
  • Zirui Huang
  • Xin Fan
  • Hui Zhang
  • Rong Zhou
  • Mingwei Song

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In this paper, we take the Yangtze River Economic Belt as the study area and analyze three types of environmental regulation tools, namely, command-and-control (CAC), market-incentivized (MI) and public-type (PT). We apply the threshold effect to test the impact of each of these tools on regional economic growth and analyze the relationships between the tools and environmental regulation. The entropy method is used to calculate the comprehensive environmental pollution index of each province and city in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Using Stata 14.0 measurement software and based on provincial data with respect to the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2014 to 2021, a panel threshold model is used to test the impact of the three types of environmental regulation tools on regional economic growth and analyze the relationship between environmental regulation and regional economic growth. It is found that the relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth is non-linear. There is no significant relationship between CAC environmental regulation and regional economic growth; there is a single threshold effect between market-incentive environmental regulation and public participation environmental regulation on the economic growth of the Yangtze River economic belt.

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  • Jiajun He & Zirui Huang & Xin Fan & Hui Zhang & Rong Zhou & Mingwei Song, 2023. "The impact of environmental regulation on regional economic growth: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(9), pages 1-21, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0290607
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290607
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