北京大学经济学院袁野老师合作论文在发展经济学领域顶刊JDE上发表

原文信息：

Xie T, Yuan Y. Go with the wind: Spatial impacts of environmental regulations on economic activities in China[J]. Journal of Development Economics, 2023: 103139.

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研究内容概要：

This paper assesses the spatial effects of environmental regulations on economic activities. By exploiting the progressive rollout of a national pollution control program in China, which constructed a monitoring network that covered the urban center of every city, we find that polluting firms located in the unmonitored upwind region of the city experienced a substantially larger reduction in output than non-upwind firms after the program. Because the wind can transport upwind pollution emissions to the monitoring network-covered urban center, local governments are incentivized to enforce tighter regulations on upwind firms. Although industrial activities were suppressed, commercial businesses and residential services were promoted in the upwind region, accompanied by a greater supply of corresponding land and increased land prices. Altogether, the monitoring program led to a substantial reduction in population exposure to air pollution and an redistribution of industrial and residential activities within the city. Our findings shed light on the policy-making of future environmental regulation programs.

本文评估了环境法规对经济活动的空间影响。通过利用中国逐步推广的一项国家污染控制计划（该计划构建了一个覆盖每个城市市中心的监测网络），我们发现，在该计划实施后，位于城市未受监测的上风区的污染企业比非上风区企业的产出减少了很多。由于风能将上风向的污染排放物输送到监测网络覆盖的城市中心，地方政府有动力对上风向的企业实施更严格的监管。虽然工业活动受到抑制，但上风向地区的商业和住宅服务业却得到了发展，同时相应的土地供应增加，地价上涨。总之，监测计划大大降低了人口暴露于空气污染的程度，并重新分配了城市中的工业和住宅活动。我们的研究结果为未来环境监管计划的决策提供了启示。

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作者介绍：

 袁野，本科与博士毕业于新加坡国立大学，现为北京大学经济学院经济学系助理教授。研究领域为医疗经济学、健康经济学、发展经济学、环境经济学，主持国家自然科学基金青年项目“移动医疗信息技术能否提高医疗资源利用率和促进分级诊疗：基于医疗大数据的证据”。

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