ECIN Replication Package for "State Ownership and Cost-effectiveness of Environmental Policies: Firm-level Evidence"

Name: ECIN Replication Package for "State Ownership and Cost-effectiveness of Environmental Policies: Firm-level Evidence"
Published: 2025-03-26
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Maoyong Fan, Ball State University; Shunqi Ge, Nankai University; Haoyang Li, Nanjing Agricultural University; Jinhua Zhao, Cornell University

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Project Citation:

Fan, Maoyong, Ge, Shunqi, Li, Haoyang, and Zhao, Jinhua. ECIN Replication Package for “State Ownership and Cost-effectiveness of Environmental Policies: Firm-level Evidence.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-06-19. https://doi.org/10.3886/E224384V5

Project Description

Summary: We employ Chinese firm-level data to examine the interconnections among firm ownership, environmental regulation, and non-environmental economic policies. We find that there are substantial differences between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately-owned enterprises (POEs) in response to government anti-pollution mandates. SOEs reduced emissions more than POEs, with the former relying mainly on abatement investment and the latter on reducing outputs. An average POE’s marginal abatement cost is more than nine times that of an average SOE, suggesting significant inefficiencies in policy implementation. Policies liberalizing financial markets could affect POEs’ abatement costs and improve the cost-effectiveness of environmental policies.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Chinese administrative data

JEL Classification:
O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products

Manuscript Number: ECIN-Oct-2023-0448

Geographic Coverage: China

Time Period(s): 2001 – 2009

Collection Date(s): 2021 – 2022

Universe: Manufacturing firms in China

Data Type(s): administrative records data

Collection Notes: The data are proprietary. The readme file outlines the ownership of the data and ways to process the data

Methodology

Response Rate: national survey - comprehensive.

Sampling: Industrial firms in China

Data Source: Two data sources: (i) emission data from the Environmental Survey and Reporting (ESR) dataset maintained by China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and (ii) output and ownership data from the Annual Survey of Industrial Firms (ASIF) administered by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

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