Environmental regulation and firms' emission reduction – The policy of eliminating backward production capacity as a quasi-natural experiment
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Keywords
“Command-and-control policy.”; Backward production capacity; Pollution emission reduction; Local spillover; Environmental governance;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
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