scholarly journals The effect of environmental regulation on air quality in China: A natural experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Yan Song ◽  
Zhenran Li ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Tingting Yang ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
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2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Nouri Najjar ◽  
Jevan Cherniwchan

For much of the industrialized world, pollution from manufacturing has been falling despite increased output. We examine how air quality standards—a common environmental regulation—have contributed to this "clean-up" of manufacturing. We develop a general equilibrium model to show how air quality standards can lead to a clean-up by causing: (i) reductions in plant emission intensity, (ii) relative changes in plant output, and (iii) plant entry and exit. We provide quasi-experimental evidence from Canada to highlight the magnitude of these responses. Our results suggest that air quality standards explain just under 40% of the clean-up of manufacturing.


2022 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Feng ◽  
Xingshu Zhu ◽  
Yu Gu ◽  
Yuecheng Liu

Based on the natural experiment of carbon emissions trading pilots in China, this paper investigates the effect of environmental regulation on corporate tax avoidance. The results show that: 1) Market-incentivized environmental regulation significantly increase the level of corporate tax avoidance. 2) Heterogeneity analysis shows that the effect is more obvious on the non-state-owned firms, firms with severe financing constraints, and firms in highly competitive industries. 3) We find that the reduction of cash flow is the channel for environmental regulation to affect corporate tax avoidance. 4) Further analysis shows that government subsidies can alleviate the enhancement of tax avoidance by environmental regulation. The more government subsidies a company receives, the less tax avoidance it has.


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