Effects of the promotion pressure of officials on green low-carbon transition: Evidence from 277 cities in China

IF 13.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI:10.1016/j.eneco.2023.107159

Tianwei Tang , Xiaojing Jiang , Kaiwen Zhu , Ziyao Ying , Wenyu Liu

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Abstract

Local governments are essential in enabling regional green transformation. Local officials are a key factor in government behavior. Using panel data from 277 cities at the prefecture level in China from 2009 to 2019, this study investigates the role of officials' promotion pressure on green and low-carbon transition and its mechanisms. The pressure of officials' promotions significantly inhibited the green low-carbon transition, and this inhibitory effect was greater before implementing the environmental inspection system. Regarding the influence mechanism, officials' promotion pressure leads to a dependence on resource factors, industrial structure, and investment in regional development, which restricts regional green low-carbon transformation. Furthermore, an additional moderating effect analysis was conducted to examine the impact of government green attention on the relationship between civil servants' promotion pressure and the green low-carbon transition. The results of this study are significant for optimizing officials' promotion mechanisms and facilitating green low-carbon transition in developing countries.

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官员晋升压力对绿色低碳转型的影响——来自中国277个城市的证据

地方政府是推动区域绿色转型的关键。地方官员是政府行为的关键因素。利用2009 - 2019年中国277个地级城市的面板数据，研究了官员晋升压力对绿色低碳转型的作用及其机制。官员升迁压力对绿色低碳转型的抑制作用显著，且在实施环保督查制度前这种抑制作用更大。在影响机制上，官员晋升压力导致区域发展对资源要素、产业结构和投资的依赖，制约了区域绿色低碳转型。此外，本文还对政府绿色关注对公务员晋升压力与绿色低碳转型关系的影响进行了调节效应分析。本研究结果对于优化发展中国家官员晋升机制，促进绿色低碳转型具有重要意义。

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Energy Economics ECONOMICS-

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18.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

524

期刊介绍： Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.