谁将花费更多的污染减排成本:大小是否重要?
Qianqian Wang1, Xun Fan1, Bing Zhang2
1State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, School of Environment, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing, 210023, China.
Environmental management
|January 29, 2024
概括
企业规模对中国的污染减排成本产生重大影响. 较大的公司由于对减排技术的投资增加,成本较低,尽管它们面临着类似的监管强度.
科学领域:
- 环境经济学环境经济学
- 工业生态学 工业生态学
- 中国经济 中国经济.
背景情况:
- 公司规模是经济分析的关键因素,可能影响环境绩效.
- 中国的工业格局出现了取决于规模的扭曲,需要对企业规模和污染成本进行调查.
研究的目的:
- 检查企业规模与中国污染减排成本之间的关系.
- 确定导致不同规模企业减少污染成本差异的机制.
主要方法:
- 分析来自中国的企业级数据集.
- 在企业规模的关系下,对减排成本的计量经济学研究.
- 探索包括投资,监管和技术在内的机制.
主要成果:
- 减少污染的成本随着企业规模的增加而下降.
- 对于最大与最小的企业,每1000元人民币的工业产出成本的边际下降:3.29元人民币 (天然气),0.54元人民币 (SO2),2.60元人民币 (尘埃).
- 大型企业的污染物清除效率更高 (SO2: 4.92%,尘埃: 1.82%) 并可能更广泛地采用减排技术.
结论:
- 企业规模与减少污染的成本正反相关.
- 较大企业的环保投资强度降低可能解释了较低的减排成本.
- 大型企业的技术能力有助于降低成本和提高效率,不一定会削弱监管.
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