基于Meta分析的地方政府竞争与环境质量关系研究

改革开放40年来,以政治晋升和财政分权为核心的激励机制是我国经济保持平稳增长的重要法宝,但这套激励机制在调动地方政府追求经济增长的同时,也会对其环境行为产生激励扭曲。现今关于地方政府竞争与环境质量间关系的定量研究由于价值取向和数据尺度等的因素,对两者间相关系数的测度结果差异显著,甚至互相矛盾。文章采用Meta相关性分析法对有关中国省级地方政府与环境质量关系的41篇文献进行研究,降低了计量工具变量对相关性结果的影响。结果显示,晋升激励与环境污染,晋升激励与环境规制,竞争压力与环境污染,竞争压力与环境规制,这4项研究假设均呈正相关。

Research on the Relationship Between Local Government Competition and Environmental Quality Based on Meta-analysis

Since the four-decades'' reform and opening-up, political promotion and fiscal decentralization as the core of the incentive mechanism is the important reasons for China''s steady economic growth. However, while mobilizing local governments to pursue economic growth, this incentive mechanism will also generate incentives and distortions in their environmental behavior. Current quantitative study on the relationship between local government competition and environmental quality because of the value orientation and data scale, the measurement results of the correlation coefficients between the two are significant and even contradictory. In this paper, the meta-correlation analysis is used to study 41 literatures on the relationship between local government and environmental quality in China, which reduces the influence of measurement tool variables on correlation results. The results show that the four research hypotheses are positively correlated with promotion incentive and environmental pollution, promotion incentive and environmental regulation, competition pressure and environmental pollution, competition pressure and environment regulation.