Indirect import and enterprise pollution emissions: A perspective from industrial linkage

IF 13.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI:10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108587

Lufeng Tai , Linnan Yan , Minjie Pan , Xinlei Qian

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Abstract

This study investigates the influence of import intermediate goods by upstream enterprises (indirect import) on the SO₂ emissions of downstream enterprises. Through a benchmark regression analysis of industrial enterprise data from China, we determine an inverse correlation between indirect imports and downstream enterprises' SO₂ emissions. This adverse impact is particularly pronounced when imported goods originate from developed countries, downstream enterprises are highly polluting industries, enterprises have strong technological absorption capability, or local environmental regulations are strict. Additionally, our findings indicate that energy efficiency enhancement, technological spillovers, and improvements in energy consumption structure resulting from indirect imports serve as intermediary factors affecting downstream enterprises' SO₂ emissions. Further investigation suggests that the primary driver behind the reduction in pollution by downstream enterprises is clean production rather than end-of-pipe treatment.

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间接进口与企业污染排放：基于产业联动的视角

本研究考察了上游企业进口中间产品（间接进口）对下游企业SO2排放的影响。通过对中国工业企业数据的基准回归分析，我们确定了间接进口与下游企业SO2排放呈负相关关系。当进口商品来自发达国家，下游企业是高污染行业，企业技术吸收能力强，或当地环境法规严格时，这种不利影响尤为明显。此外，间接进口带来的能效提升、技术溢出和能源消费结构改善是影响下游企业SO2排放的中介因素。进一步调查表明，下游企业污染减少的主要驱动力是清洁生产，而不是末端处理。

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Energy Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

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.