文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Has environmental information disclosure eased the economic inhibition of air pollution?

作者：Feng, Yan[1];Chen, Hao[2];Chen, Zhujun[2];Wang, Yinuo[3];Wei, Wendong[4,5]

机构：[1]Shanghai Univ, Sch Econ, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China;[2]Univ Shanghai Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200093, Peoples R China;[3]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[4]Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Int & Publ Affairs, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China;[5]Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, SJTU UNIDO Joint Inst Inclus & Sustainable Ind De, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China

年份：2021

卷号：284

外文期刊名：JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

收录：;EI(收录号：20205109656168);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000607036400004)，SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000607036400004)】；

基金：This work was supported by funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71904125, 72088101, 71810107001, 71690241), the Shanghai Sailing Program (18YF1417500), and the MOE (Ministry of Education of China) Special Funds for National and Regional Studies (19GBQY055).

语种：英文

外文关键词：Air pollution; Environmental information disclosure; Local economic development; Environmental governance

摘要：To improve environmental quality, the Chinese government implemented a series of environmental policies, including the environmental information disclosure system, which is critical to promoting China's ecological development, and PM2.5 monitoring data, which constitute the most important and valued index. Using data from 120 cities in which the environmental information disclosure policy was implemented in China from 2008 to 2016, this research empirically tested the impact of air pollution on economic development and the transmission mechanism of this effect using a two-stage least squares regression model (2SLS). Additionally, this study innovatively tested the impact of environmental information disclosure on air pollution and economic development. Our results indicate that air pollution can hinder economic development and that spending on scientific research and financing polluters are two crucial transmission mechanisms. Disclosure of environmental information effectively reduces concealment of and failure to report pollution, enabling the environmental reports published by the government to more accurately reflect the air quality. By increasing the government's environmental protection expenditure, this disclosure system expands environmental protection employment and infrastructure construction. In this way, the negative externality of air pollution has been alleviated by the government's enhanced environmental governance. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.