信息可得性会影响开发区的绿色赋能效应吗——来自中国工业污染源重点调查企业的经验证据  

Information Availability and the Green Empowerment Effects of Development Zones:Evidence from China’s Heavy Polluting Firms

作　　者：陈艳莹[1] 曹天一 张子贞 CHEN Yanying;CAO Tianyi;ZHANG Zizhen(Dalian University of Technology,116024)

机构地区：[1]大连理工大学经济管理学院,116024

出　　处：《财贸经济》2024年第11期141-156,共16页Finance & Trade Economics

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目“二元传导路径下促进制造业绿色转型的认证机制设计与政策创新研究”(19BJY105)。

摘　　要：本文针对开发区普遍位于城市偏远地带的地理区位特征,利用中国工业污染源重点调查企业以及国家级和省级两类开发区数据,系统考察了地理距离导致的信息可得性下降对开发区绿色赋能效应的影响。研究发现,开发区设立可以降低区内企业污染排放强度并提升绿色全要素生产率,但地理位置偏远导致的信息可得性下降直接弱化了社会公众对企业的环境合法性压力且间接助长了环境规制中的政企合谋,进而削弱了开发区的绿色赋能效应。异质性分析显示,这一抑制作用在民营企业、省级开发区、区域环境信息公开程度较低和环境审计较弱的城市表现得更为突出,在国家级开发区和区域环境公开程度及环境审计强度较高的城市则不显著。上述结论有助于全面认识开发区的微观环境效应,为提高开发区的绿色赋能潜力提供了新的政策思路。Development zones are an engine of economic growth and green transformation in countries seeking sustainable development.How to effectively play the role of the development zones as a highquality development pioneer and fully release their potential in green transformation remains an important question to be addressed.This paper investigates the impact of information availability on green empowerment effects of China’s development zones,which are usually located in remote suburban areas or countryside,using data from China’s heavy polluting firms.While development zones provide resources and exert regulatory pressure to improve firms’environmental performance,their geographic distance reduces information availability to the public,thus dampening the positive effect.The results show that the establishment of development zones lowers the emissions intensity and increases the green total factor productivity of the firms in these zones.However,lower information availability due to geographic remoteness inhibits the green empowerment effect in the above two aspects.Mechanism tests reveal that the decline in information availability causes the inhibition effect because it directly weakens public legitimacy pressure on firms and indirectly enables collusion between local governments and firms.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the inhibition effect is more prominent in private firms,in provincial-level development zones than in state-level zones,and in cities with a lower level of regional Environmental Information Disclosure(EID)and weaker environmental auditing.The main contributions of this paper are as follows.First,from the perspective of economic geography,it expands the mechanism through which external stakeholders drive firms’green transformation in the framework of institutional theory,seeks to enrich the understanding of influencing factors on the mechanisms of legitimacy pressure on corporate green transformation,and provides theoretical support for improving the environmental effects of development zo

关 键 词：开发区 信息可得性 环境绩效 绿色全要素生产率 环境信息公开 

分 类 号：F205[经济管理—国民经济] F062.9