技术进步视角下环境规制对碳排放绩效的影响研究

The Influence of Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emissions Performance in Perspective of Technological Progress

摘要:

温室气体的无序排放是市场失灵的重要表象,必须通过政府的环境规制弥补市场自身缺陷性。环境规制的成效取决于“遵循成本”效应和“创新补偿”效应的大小,而“创新补偿”效应的本质可归结为环境规制能否促进企业的技术进步。基于技术进步视角,实证分析了2000-2014年的中国环境规制与碳排放绩效的关系,结果显示：技术进步为碳排放绩效提升的重要动因,环境规制对碳排放绩效不产生显著直接影响,但在滞后1-3年,环境规制通过技术进步对碳排放绩效产生显著的间接影响,且这种作用高于技术进步本身对碳排放绩效的影响。

Abstract:

The disordered emissions of greenhouse gas are important sign of market failure, so we must make up the defection of the market itself through the government"s environmental regulations. The achievement of environmental regulations hinges on the result of “compliance costs” effect and “innovation compensation” effect, and the essence of “innovation compensation” effect can be attributed to whether the environmental regulations can promote technological progress. Based on the perspective of technological progress, we have an empirical analysis on the relationship between environmental regulations and the carbon emissions performance in China during 2000-2014. The results indicate that technological progress is a major cause of improvement in carbon emissions performance, and the environmental regulations do not produce significantly direct impact on carbon emissions performance, but in the lag of 1-3 years, environmental regulations have a significant indirect effect on carbon emissions performance through technology progress, and this effect is higher than the technological progress itself.