scholarly journals Influence of digital economy on industrial wastewater discharge: evidence from 281 Chinese prefecture-level cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangxiang Sun ◽  
Zhangwang Chen ◽  
Tingting Shi ◽  
Guangqing Yang ◽  
Xiaoyan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Industrial Wastewater ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Method Of Moment ◽  
Wastewater Discharge ◽  
Pollution Emissions ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moment ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The development of digital economy affects environmental pollution emission and green sustainable development. However, the relationship between digital economy and industrial wastewater discharge has rarely been examined. This study establishes the urban digital economy evaluation index system, measures the digital economy indexes of 281 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2016, and examines the impact effect of digital economy development on industrial wastewater discharge using the system generalized method of moment method and the intermediary effects model. The empirical results indicate that the digital economy reduces the industrial wastewater discharge. As evidence shows, the digital economy significantly promotes the upgrading of industrial structure, which is an important factor affecting the industrial wastewater discharge. Additionally, the inhibiting effect of digital economy on industrial wastewater discharge is more significant in big cities. This study provides a scientific base and guidance for reducing environmental pollution emissions and promoting the development of digital economy.

scholarly journals Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Structure Transformation on Haze Pollution across China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5439
Author(s):  
Chenggang Li ◽  
Tao Lin ◽  
Zhenci Xu ◽  
Yuzhu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Structure Transformation ◽  
Haze Pollution ◽  
The Impact

With the development of economic globalization, some local environmental pollution has become a global environmental problem through international trade and transnational investment. This paper selects the annual data of 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2017 and adopts exploratory spatial data analysis methods to explore the spatial agglomeration characteristics of haze pollution in China’s provinces. Furthermore, this paper constructs a spatial econometric model to test the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and industrial structure transformation on haze pollution. The research results show that the high-high concentration area of haze pollution in China has shifted from the central and western regions to the eastern region and from inland regions to coastal regions. When FDI increases by 1%, haze pollution in local and neighboring areas will be reduced by 0.066% and 0.3538%, respectively. However, the impact of FDI on haze pollution is heterogeneous in different stages of economic development. FDI can improve the rationalization level of industrial structure, and then inhibit the haze pollution. However, FDI inhibits the upgrading level of industrial structure to a certain extent, and then aggravates the haze pollution. The research in this paper provides an important decision-making basis for coordinating the relationship between FDI and environmental pollution and realizing green development.

scholarly journals The Influence of the Development of Digital Economy on the Upgrading of China’s Industrial Structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 03062
Author(s):  
Yaling Li
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Internet Development ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, with the rapid development of the Internet, all walks of life are closely connected with the development of the Internet. Differences in the degree of integration between different industries and the Internet make the leading industries of the national economy constantly change, thus promoting the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure. The impact of Internet development on the upgrading of industrial structure is not only that the interconnected technologies and platforms change the traditional economic model, but also that the integration of Internet and industry has a profound impact on the industrial structure.

The impact of foreign direct investment on trade in Pakistan: the moderating role of terrorism

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1137-1154
Author(s):  
Syed Hasanat Shah ◽  
Hafsa Hasnat ◽  
Delpachitra Sarath
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Trade Deficit ◽  
Method Of Moment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Face ◽  
External Sector ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moment ◽  
The Impact

PurposePakistan suffered with the menace of terrorism for long and become a front line state in the “War on Terror”. Terrorism shattered Pakistan economy and rendered her external sector vulnerable to instability and uncertainties.Design/methodology/approachTherefore, using system generalized method of moment (GMM), this paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on exports, imports and trade deficit in the face of unabated terrorism in Pakistan.FindingsThe findings of the paper suggest that as terrorism in Pakistan increased, FDI contribution to Pakistan exports decreased while FDI contribution to Pakistan imports significantly increased. Terrorism also disrupted the chain of local production and increased Pakistan reliance on imports. Thus terrorism widened Pakistan trade deficit of Pakistan and expose Pakistan to external imbalances.Originality/valueDespite rise in organized acts of terrorism and its adverse impact on various departments of economy, hardly any study bothers to check its impact on trade and investment nexus. This is the first study of its nature that looks deep down to understand how terrorism affects the relation of major economic variables.

scholarly journals Impact of Agency Costs on Firm Performance: Evidence from Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-309
Author(s):  
Le Duc Hoang ◽  
Tran Minh Tuan ◽  
Pham Van Tue Nha ◽  
Pham Van Tue Nha ◽  
Ta Thu Phuong
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Instrumental Variables ◽  
Agency Costs ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Econometric Models ◽  
Method Of Moment ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moment ◽  
The Impact

An assumption in agency costs theory is that agency costs can exert a negative impact on firm performance. In this study, we examine the impact of agency costs on firm performance of Vietnamese listed companies. Our sample includes 736 companies in Vietnam during the period om 2010 to 2015. We find that agency costs exert a negative impact on firm performance. Our results are robust to alternative econometric models, including an instrumental variables technique and a system generalized method of moment model. In addition, we show that a debt instrument can be a useful tool to reduce the negative impact of agency costs on firm performance.

scholarly journals The influence of digital economy on the upgrading of industrial structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 01047
Author(s):  
Siyu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Entropy Weight ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Entropy Weight Method ◽  
Weight Method ◽  
The Impact

Digital economy is an important starting point for China’s high-quality economic development, which may have an impact on the level of industrial structure. This paper calculates the development level of digital economy by entropy weight method, selects the relevant data of 31 provinces and cities in China from 2012 to 2019, and uses the method of empirical test to analyze the impact of the development of digital economy on the upgrading of China’s industrial structure. The result shows that the development of digital economy can promote the upgrading of China’s overall industrial structure, which is significant at the level of 1%. Further research shows that the development of digital economy has regional heterogeneity on the upgrading of industrial structure in the eastern, central and western regions of China. The research of this paper has important practical significance for the high-quality development of China’s economy.

scholarly journals Environmental Governance Effect of the Transformation of Export Trade Mode: Empirical Evidence from 194 Cities in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
guangqin Li ◽  
Xubing Fang ◽  
Maotao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Pollution Level ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
Processing Trade ◽  
The Impact

Abstract As one of the developing countries, China's export trade mode (ETM) has gradually shifted from processing trade to general trade. Is the deterioration of China's environmental pollution caused by the transformation of ETM? Based on the panel data from 194 cities in China from 2000 to 2016, this paper investigates the impact of ETM transformation on the environmental pollution and its internal mechanism. The results show that: the ETM is gradually shifting from processing trade to general trade, environmental pollution will deteriorate first and then improve, that is, showing a significant “inverted U-shaped” relationship between the transformation of ETM and environmental pollution. Through the robustness test of the threshold, and SYS-GMM model, the results are still valid. The mechanism research shows that the upgrading of industrial structure, energy structure, industrial agglomeration, environmental protection investment and resource allocation are the main mechanism that the transformation of ETM affect environmental pollution. The conclusions of this study can provide empirical evidence for the process that the environmental pollution level of developing countries deteriorated and then improved during the process of transforming from processing export trade to general export trade.

scholarly journals Malaria and Natural Disasters: Evidence Using GMM Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 703-716
Author(s):  
Harpaljit Kaur ◽  
Muzafar Shah Habibullah ◽  
Shalini Nagaratnam
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Method Of Moment ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Robustness Check

Natural disasters not only disrupt accessibility to education, health care, food supplies and clean water, but causes outbreak of diseases. These issues deteriorate the health conditions among the victims of disasters and reduce human capital accumulation that adversely affects the economic development of the country. This paper examines the impact of total disasters and floods on malaria incidences using panel data over the period 2008 to 2014 for 79 countries. For robustness check, we use two measures on each of these natural disasters; the number of occurrences and number of people affected by these disasters. Employing the system Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) model, the findings show that the occurrences and the number of people affected by total disasters and flood, significantly increases cases of malaria. Income and education negatively impact the incidences of malaria whereas urbanization and deforestation increase the rates of malaria cases.

scholarly journals Study on the Influence of Tourism Activities on Nature Reserves in China and Its Countermeasures

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Qi Ji
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Culture Development ◽  
The Impact

China’s “industrial restructuring” has expanded the proportion of the tertiary industry in the economy and promoted the development of local tourism. The ongoing “industrial structure upgrading” is intended to make the industry bigger and stronger, which will promote the growth of local tourism. As a tourist resort, nature reserves have been attracting a large number of tourists and have great development potential and economic value. Under this situation, various management agencies of nature reserves have successively carried out tourism activities and carried out tourism development and construction. However, there is no doubt that both tourism activities and development will have an impact on the ecological system of nature reserves. The existing legal system of nature reserves in China emphasizes the prohibition of behaviors that directly destroy the ecological environment and ignores the impact of human tourism activities. The continuous increase in the number of tourism in our country, brought on nature reserves of rich tourist income at the same time, a large number of facts show that tourism has become a source of environmental pollution, so it is necessary for tourism environmental pollution the main way to do a summary and its particularity, summing up the basic law of tourism affect the environment, thus provide the basis for strengthening the environmental protection from the point of view of tourism management. The emergence and development of tourism culture is inseparable from the influence of the environment, and tourism culture also affects the environment. The negative effects and negative effects of tourism culture development on the environment are becoming more and more evident, which has aroused people’s general concern. In recent years, the negative impact of tourism and cultural activities on the environment has been paid much attention to by many scholars at home and abroad. This paper discusses the impact of tourism activities on nature reserves, and discusses the causes of this problem, so as to analyze the strategies to ensure the harmony and order of nature reserves in tourism activities.

scholarly journals Effect of Trade Credit on Firms Growth: A Case Study of Pakistani Non-financial Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafiz M. Adnan Hanif
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Method Of Moment ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Financial Firms ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moment ◽  
The Impact

This study attempts to investigate the impact of trade credit on the growth of non-financial firms of Pakistan. Most of the businesses move from traditional business transactions to automated and sophisticated credit transaction methods. As large firms have better access to financial institutions and markets but still, they are interested to seek firm growth by adopting the trade credit policies. This study collects information from non-financial firms of Pakistan. Panel data is used to explore the impact of trade credit on firms growth. The data collect from the year 2001- 2015 of 257 non-financial firms of Pakistan. A technique of panel data analysis, generalized method of moment used to analyze the data. The results suggest that the trade credit and GDP have a positive significant impact on firms’ growth. Moreover, Firm’s age, its size and inflation in the economy have also impacted the firm’s growth but in negative direction. Finally, the non-financial listed firms of Pakistan can achieve their growth targets by adopting trade credit policies

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