Environmental Policy Shocks and Manufacturing Resilience: A Multi-Path Mechanism and Regional Heterogeneity Analysis

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 17; no. 13; p. 5932
• Main Authors: Yao, Xingyuan, Wang, Zheqiu, Zheng, Kangze, Lin, Qingfan, Lin, Weiming, Zhong, Yufen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2025
• Subjects: Carbon; Climate change; Compliance; Digital transformation; Economic aspects; Economic development; Efficiency; Energy consumption; Environmental aspects; Environmental policy; Environmental regulations; Environmental sustainability; Externality; Fines & penalties; Hypotheses; Industrial development; Manufacturing; Manufacturing processes; Methods; Pollution; Productivity; Regions; Regulation; China

Environmental regulation has become a central policy tool for reconciling the tensions between ecological sustainability and industrial development. Although most existing studies focus on its impact on green innovation or firm behavioral change, attention to how environmental regulation affects the...