Examining the impact of environmental centralization on enterprise total factor productivity through a quasi-natural experiment conducted in China

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 17250 - 15
• Main Authors: Chen, Aonan, Cheng, Yangyang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 27.07.2024; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/844/4081; 704/844/685; 704/844/843; Decentralization; Econometrics; Efficiency; Energy consumption; Enterprise total factor productivity; Environmental centralization; Environmental governance; Environmental impact; Environmental protection; Environmental regulations; Experiments; Federal government; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hypotheses; Literature reviews; multidisciplinary; Pollution control; Productivity; Public finance; Regional development; Regional planning; Regions; Research design; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Staggered difference-in-differences model; Vertical environmental governance; China; Environmental centralization; Enterprise total factor productivity; Vertical environmental governance; Staggered difference-in-differences model

This paper explores the effects and influence mechanisms of environmental centralization on enterprise technological progress and productivity in China. Taking the reform of vertical environmental governance (VEG) as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper compares the differences in total factor pro...