关键词: 环境规制, 绿色经济增长, Luenberger生产率指标, 部分线性函数系数模型

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of environmental regulation on green economic growth and its underlying mechanisms. Using the global Luenberger production index based on non-radial direction distance function, we build a comprehensive framework incorporating pollution and economic growth to measure Chinese city green economic growth rate. In face of regional imbalance, we exploit interaction term, threshold panel and partially linear functional coeficient models subject to income per capita to reveal heterogeneous effects of environmental regulation on the green economic growth of Chinese cities. The results show that environmental regulation significantly promotes urban green economic growth, mainly through the improvement of technology efficiency and technological level. The promoting impact is not significant until urban income per capita reaches 22.8 thousand yuan (at the 2004 price level), and continuously increases after hitting the critical point. This article provides fresh evidence for investigating the relationship between environmental regulation and urban green economic growth.

Key words: Environmental Regulation, Green Economic Growth, Luenberger Productivity Indicators, Partially Linear Functional Coefficient Model