Direct and moderating effects of environmental regulation intensity on enterprise technological innovation: The case of China
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Xiguang Cao aff001; Min Deng aff001; Fei Song aff002; Shihu Zhong aff003; Junhao Zhu aff001
Působiště autorů:
School of Urban and Regional Science, Institute of Finance and Economics Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
aff001; School of Information Engineering, Jiangsu Open University, Nanjing, China
aff002; Department of Investment, School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
aff003
Vyšlo v časopise:
PLoS ONE 14(10)
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Research Article
prolekare.web.journal.doi_sk:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223175
Souhrn
There is few significant attempt to integrate environmental regulation, government financial support, and corporate technological innovation in a methodological framework. Employing the data of the industrial enterprises with an annual turnover of over 20 million yuan from 30 Chinese provinces or municipalities between 2008 and 2016, this paper applies the fixed effect regression model to reveal the relationships between environmental regulation, government financial support, and corporate technological innovation simultaneously. Results show that: (1) there exists a U-shaped relation between environmental regulation intensity and technological innovation of enterprises which declines first and then climbs up, and China is still at the stage of inhibition before the “inflection point”. (2) government financial support does not significantly work on technological innovation directly, but environmental regulation drives this effect to be achieved; when the value of lnER is higher than 3.69, government financial support can significantly facilitate corporate technological innovation. (3) the comparison between regional samples reveals that heterogeneity exists in the influence of environmental regulation intensity and government financial support on corporate technological innovation. The threshold value of enabling effects of environmental regulation in eastern region is higher than that of the central and western region. These results remain consistent after we experiment several robustness checks. Theory and policy implications of our work are discussed.
Klíčová slova:
Finance – Pollution – Economic analysis – China – Human capital – Economic development – Environmental regulations – Environmental protection
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