Journal of Qujing Normal University ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (6): 102-107.

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Impact of Local Government Intervention on Upgrading of Industry and Improvement of Environmental Quality Based on the Western Provincial Panel Data Model

SUN Liping1, YANG Jun2   

  1. 1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Qujing Normal University, Qujing Yunnan 655011;
    2. School of Economics and Management, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang Sichuan 641112, China
  • Received:2022-04-25 Online:2022-11-26 Published:2022-12-14

Abstract: This paper takes the panel data of 12 provinces (cities) in the western region from 2000 to 2020 as the research object, empirically analyzes the impact of local government on industrial transformation and upgrading and environmental quality improvement. In order to avoid endogeneity, the total area of the region and the number of county-level administrative divisions in each province are selected as instrumental variables, the instrumental variable model is used to estimate, and the result is robust.The results are stable in considering variables and samples and show that: first, the total effect of local government intervention is net income, the stronger the government intervention, and the net income is greater; second, the government intervention has a positive role in promoting industrial upgrading and environmental quality improvement; third, government intervention has different effects , and the stronger the intervention, the more significant the improvement of environmental quality will be, but the less significant the effect on the upgrading of industrial structure.

Key words: government intervention, industrial transformation and upgrading, environmental quality, western region

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