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September 14, 2023SustainabilityOpen Access

The Location Choice and Survival of Polluting Firms under Environmental Regulation in Urban Agglomerations of China

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ZLZhi LiSZSaijiao ZhouZZZhang Zuo

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Survival analysis reveals an inverted U-shaped link between distance from central cities and survival in polluting industrial firms, highlighting the competing roles of regulations and market access.

Key Points

  • To examine how environmental regulation in the central cities of urban agglomerations affects the spatial location choices and survival rates of polluting industrial firms.
  • Linked firm-level data from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database and the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Pollution Emission Database covering 1998 to 2013.
  • Modeled firm survival across central–periphery spatial structures using accelerated failure time (AFT) and Cox proportional hazards (Cox PH) models.
  • Demonstrated an inverted U-shaped relationship between polluting firm survival and spatial distance from central cities under central environmental regulations.
  • Identified that heightened regulatory intensity in central cities decreases firm survival, though central market potential partially offsets this survival penalty.
  • Found that the inverted U-shaped survival dynamic is significantly more pronounced among private firms and does not systematically apply to new entrants.

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Li et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d5ce43575152c8237e04chttps://doi.org/10.3390/su151813711
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