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13.07.2023

A futile help: do vertical transfer payments promote haze control?

verfasst von: Siying Yang, Hua Bai, An Li

Erschienen in: Economic Change and Restructuring | Ausgabe 5/2023

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Most existing studies believe that vertical transfer payments (VTPs) can enhance the fiscal capacity of local governments, thus improving the environment. Taking China's VTPs to resource-exhausted cities as an example, we analysed the impact of the VTP on city haze pollution (CHP) by using a progressive difference-in-difference (DID) model. Instead of improving city haze control in other studies, our results show that VTPs given by the central government to resource-exhausted cities aggravate CHP. Robustness tests based on several methods still confirm the above findings. Dynamic feature analysis shows that the aggravating effect of VTPs on CHP in resource-exhausted cities may continue for years. The mediating effect results show that VTPs aggravate CHP by inhibiting technological innovation and high-tech industrial agglomeration, which partly confirm the path-dependence theory. In addition, environmental regulation reduces the aggravating effect of VTPs on the CHP. Our conclusion supplements the ecological effect research of the VTP and has important reference significance for developing countries to improve the ecological governance of resource-exhausted cities by building and improving fiscal transfer systems and ecological compensation institutions.

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Titel: A futile help: do vertical transfer payments promote haze control?
verfasst von: Siying Yang
Hua Bai
An Li
Publikationsdatum: 13.07.2023
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Economic Change and Restructuring / Ausgabe 5/2023
Print ISSN: 1573-9414
Elektronische ISSN: 1574-0277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-023-09537-1

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