主题: Pollution Regulation and Firm Productivity Growth

主讲人: 陈滢

主持人：武文杰

讲座时间：10月19日上午10：00开始

地点：经院207会议室

摘要: 

This study explores the effect of air pollution regulation on industrial firm productivity. In particular, it investigates the effects of controls on the exogenous variation in sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions in the context of China’s Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy, which was implemented in 1998. We compile a large panel of geolocated industrial firms, detailed county-level characteristics, and a rich set of geospatial information derived from satellite data for the analysis. Our identification strategy uses the instrumental variable of local suitability for engineering-based power plants in the first-differencing setup as a means to improve the comparability of growth trends between the treatment and control groups. The findings show that this regulation has substantially lowered the growth of firm-level total factor productivity, and our estimated adverse effects are greater than previous findings in the existing literature.

个人简介：陈滢，厦门大学经济学院、王亚南经济研究院助理教授、硕士研究生导师。主要研究领域为城市经济学。本科毕业于美国常青藤布朗大学，博士毕业于英国伦敦政治经济学院，师从城市经济学奠基人Vernon Henderson教授。曾先后在世界银行、宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院、及英国国家政府国际发展司担任咨询师及研究员职务，开展多个城市经济发展相关研究课题。研究成果发表于国际顶级期刊《Journal of Urban Economics》，并担任多个相关期刊匿名审稿人。