Towards carbon neutrality: the effects of environmental regulatory distance on corporate carbon emissions
カーボンニュートラルに向けて：環境規制の距離が企業の炭素排出に与える影響 (AI 翻訳)
Jidan Zhi, Daqian Shi, Xiaozhen Ouyang
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日本語
本論文は、環境規制と官民癒着の観点から、環境保護局（EPB）の規制距離が企業の炭素排出に与える影響を分析。1999～2013年の中国工業企業45万5063社のデータを用い、距離が大きいほど炭素強度が高まることを実証。この効果は規制執行コストの低下と抑止力の強化を通じて生じ、短期的な生産・投資削減と長期的なグリーンイノベーション・エネルギー構造転換に影響する。
English
This paper examines how the geographical distance between firms and Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) affects corporate carbon emissions using 455,063 Chinese industrial firm-year observations (1999-2013). Greater distance is associated with higher carbon intensity (0.023, p<0.01), mediated by lower enforcement costs and reduced deterrence. The effect is stronger for municipal EPBs, eastern firms, and small firms, influencing both short-run output/investment and long-run green innovation and energy transition.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
中国の環境規制の実証研究だが、日本でも地方自治体の規制執行力と企業立地の関係はGX政策の実効性に直結する。特に、SSBJ開示基準における地域差や規制の実効性評価に示唆を与える。
In the global GX context
This study introduces geographical distance as a non-institutional factor affecting carbon emissions, enriching the 'distance decay effect' and 'Porter Hypothesis' literature. For global GX context, it highlights how regulatory enforcement proximity matters for corporate decarbonization, relevant to designing effective climate policies and disclosure frameworks that account for regional heterogeneity.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides empirical evidence on the role of regulatory distance in corporate carbon emissions, extending environmental economics and geo-economics literature.
🏢実務担当者:Highlights the importance of regulatory proximity for effective carbon management; firms in remote areas may face weaker enforcement, requiring proactive internal measures.
🏛政策担当者:Suggests that uniform carbon regulations may have uneven impacts due to geographical enforcement gaps; targeted policies or regional enforcement capacity building may be needed.
📄 Abstract（原文）
This paper is founded upon the perspective of environmental regulation and government-enterprise collusion. It uses 455063 Chinese industrial firm-year observations from 1999 to 2013 to explore the effects of the Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) regulatory distance on firms’ carbon emissions. To address endogeneity, we take the historical county-level EPB density in 1989 as an instrument variable. Our results show that greater distance correlates with higher carbon intensity (0.023, p < 0.01), which verified the environmental regulatory effect of geographical distance. This effect is achieved by lowering regulatory enforcement costs, and enhancing regulatory deterrence, which influence both their short-run (decrease output and investment) and long-run (green innovation and energy structure transformation) behavior; notably, this effect is stronger among municipal-level EPBs, eastern region firms, and small scale firms. Overall, we introduce geographical distance, a non-institutional factor, into the research area of carbon emissions, enrich the ‘distance decay effect’ hypothesis in geo-economics and the ‘Porter Hypothesis’ in environmental economics.
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