Does Environmental Regulation Weaken Industrial Competitiveness?Inspirations from China’s Iron and Steel Sector  

协调环境保护与经济增长关系的制度设计:源于钢铁工业的启示

作　　者：邓泳红[1] 张其仔[2] 陈晓东[2] 

机构地区：[1]社会科学文献出版社 [2]中国社会科学院工业经济研究所

出　　处：《China Economist》2015年第4期72-96,共25页中国经济学人（英文版）

摘　　要：China＇s economic growth is heavily influenced by exports, while reconciling environmental regulation and economic growth requires handling the relationship between environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness well. The effects of environmental regulation on industrial competitiveness are largely subject to the institutional design of environmental regulation. Despite numerous studies on the relationship between environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness, a consensus has yet to be reached. Aside from differences in research methodology, these studies failed to give sufficient consideration to the impact of environmental regulation on industrial competitiveness. Such effects can be negative or positive depending on the design of environmental regulatory policy. This paper has investigated the relationship between environmental regulation and the competitiveness of China＇s iron and steel industry and discovered that tighter environmental regulation does not diminish the competitiveness of the iron and steel industry since the policy design of environmental regulation accommodates the tolerance of advanced production capacity and includes a reasonable cost sharing mechanism. This discovery is of important reference for China to develop rational policy design to balance the relationship between environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness.中国的经济增长受出口增长的影响很大，协调好环境管制与经济增长的关系，很大程度上要协调环境管钢与产业竞争力的关系。环境管钢对产业竞争力的影响，很大程度上要受到环境管制机制设计的影响。对环境管制与产业竞争力关系的研究虽然形成了大量成果，但迄今没有得出一致的科学结论，其原因除研究方法的差异处，还在于各类研究都没有充分考虑到环境管制政策对于协调环境管制与产业竞争力关系的作用。环境管制既可能对产业竞争力产生负面影响，也可能产生正面影响，而空间是产生正面影响，还是产生负面影响，则完全取决于环境管制政策的设计。本文研究了中国钢铁工业的环境管制与钢铁工业产业竞争力的关系，发现中国加强对钢铁工业的环境管制对钢铁工业的竞争力并没有造成负面影响，原因在于钢铁工业的环境管制政策设计充分考虑了先进产能的承受力和设计了合理的成本分摊机制。这一发现，对于我国如何通过政策设计协调环境管制与产业竞争力的关系从而协调环境管制与产业竞争力具有重要参考意义。

关 键 词：environmental regulation industrial competitiveness iron and steel industry ADF aneed produetion capacity cost sharing mechanism 

分 类 号：F426.31[经济管理—产业经济] X22[环境科学与工程—环境科学]