華南經(jīng)濟(jì)論壇第247期：劉沖助理教授講座
時(shí)間：11月15日下午3：00—4:30
地點(diǎn)：經(jīng)濟(jì)與管理學(xué)院文2棟五樓會(huì)議室
主講人：劉沖
題目：Does Environmental Regulation Spur Environment-Friendly Technology Change? Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment in China
內(nèi)容摘要： This paper investigates whether environmental regulation spurs environmental-friendly technology change. To identify the causal effect, we use a difference-in-differences strategy by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in China, that is, the Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy implemented by the Chinese government in 1998, in which tougher environmental regulations were imposed in TCZ counties than in non-TCZ counties. We find that stringent environmental regulation increases regional green innovation by 18.6%, but does not crowd out other innovation activities. Our instrumental variable estimation confirms that this impact is causal. We further find that this impact is mainly driven by private firms and work through two potential mechanisms -- enterprises’ energy-saving and environment-protecting responses to the regulation.
主講人簡(jiǎn)介：
劉沖，北京大學(xué)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)院助理教授，世界銀行短期顧問(wèn)。北京大學(xué)光華管理學(xué)院應(yīng)用經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)博士（2013），清華大學(xué)經(jīng)濟(jì)管理學(xué)院博士后（2015），研究領(lǐng)域?yàn)楣步?jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)、發(fā)展經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)和政治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)。近年來(lái)在Economic Journal、International Journal of Industrial Organization、《經(jīng)濟(jì)研究》、《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)（季刊）》、《世界經(jīng)濟(jì)》、《金融研究》等國(guó)內(nèi)外著名期刊發(fā)表論文20多篇。先后主持國(guó)家自然科學(xué)基金、農(nóng)業(yè)部農(nóng)村經(jīng)濟(jì)研究中心研究基金等多項(xiàng)科研課題。