Transfer Payment And Environmental Pollution

Environmental pollution is one of the major challenges facing China's current sustainable economic development.At the same time,in China,fiscal transfer occupies an important place in local finance,and the role in economic life is also growing.Studying how fiscal transfer plays an important role in environmental pollution and how economic growth play a role has a certain guiding significance in helping central government to governance environmental pollution.Based on the work of Gupta and Barman(2009)Davoodi and Zcu(1998),this paper constructs the endogenous growth model including fiscal transfer and environmental quality,then discusses the influence of fiscal transfer on environmental pollution at the theoretical level,it is found that fiscal transfer both directly affect the quality of the environment,but also affect the environmental quality through the economic growth rate.Then,based on the theoretical model,this paper constructs the econometric model.At the level of air pollution and water pollution Based on the China inter-provincial panel data from 1998 to 2014,this paper finds that:1.China's fiscal transfer is positively correlated with environmental pollution,and the positive coefficient in coastal areas is higher than inland area.2,Economic growth and industrial structure play a mediating role in fiscal transfer and environmental pollutant emissions;this intermediary effect is exited in sulfur dioxide,carbon dioxide and chemical oxygen demand indicators;3 The impact of transfer payments on environmental pollution is different between different regions and different indicators.First,at the point of view of air pollution:for per capita sulfur dioxide,both in coastal areas and inland areas,transfer payments are positively correlated with per capita sulfur dioxide emissions,and the correlation coefficient in coastal areas is higher than in inland areas;for per capita carbon dioxide Regional transfer payments positively affect carbon dioxide emissions,while inland areas transfer payments negatively affect carbon dioxide emissions;secondly,in terms of water pollution,for per capita chemical oxygen demand,both in coastal areas and inland areas,transfer payments are And the correlation coefficient of per capita chemical oxygen demand is positive,and the correlation coefficient of coastal area is higher than that of inland area.4,The impact of subdivision transfer payments on environmental pollution is heterogeneous in different regions and between different indicators.In general,under the sulfur dioxide index,China's tax return has no significant effect on the per capital sulfur dioxide,the general transfer payments exacerbate the discharge of environmental pollutants,and special transfer payments to reduce environmental pollutant emissions.Under the index of chemical oxygen demand,the effect of tax return on per capital chemical oxygen demand is not significant.The general transfer payment and special transfer payment all increase the emission of per capital chemical oxygen demand,and the coefficient of general transfer payment is higher than Special transfer payment.For different regions,in coastal areas,both in the per capital SO2 and per capital chemical oxygen demand indicators,both tax return and general transfer payments exacerbate environmental pollutant emissions,while the special transfer payments reduce environmental pollutants Emissions in the inland areas,both in the per capital sulfur dioxide or per capital chemical oxygen demand indicators,the tax return and general transfer payments on the impact of environmental pollutants are not significant,and special transfer payments on the one hand to reduce the per capital Sulfur dioxide emissions,on the other hand exacerbate the per capital chemical oxygen demand...