环境标志认证、出口持续时间与企业出口韧性
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2025-01-10 09:40
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环境标志认证、出口持续时间与企业出口韧性
Environmental Labeling Certification, Export Duration, and Firm Export Resilience
《财经研究》2024年50卷第11期 页码：111-125 online：2024年11月3日
中：张兵兵1,2 , 王宁1 , 曹历娟1
英：Zhang Bingbing1,2, Wang Ning1, Cao Lijuan1
作者单位：1. 南京农业大学 经济管理学院，江苏 南京 210000; 2. 南京农业大学 资源环境与发展研究院，江苏 南京 210000
摘要：环境标志认证作为典型的自愿型环境规制措施，是政府积极构建多元主体参与的生态环境治理体系的重要体现。文章首先厘清了环境标志认证影响企业出口持续时间的内在机理及作用机制；然后，利用2000—2014年中国工业企业数据库、中国海关数据库和生态环境部公布的通过环境标志认证企业名单的匹配数据，以环境标志认证为准自然实验，运用双重差分模型（DID）识别其影响企业出口持续时间的政策净效应。结果发现：环境标志认证可以显著延长企业出口持续时间，且该结论在进行安慰剂检验、变换样本及排除其他政策干扰等多重情景下依然稳健；环境标志认证对企业出口持续时间的影响因企业融资约束水平高低、行业污染程度差异和地区数字经济发展水平不同而存在显著异质性。机制检验发现，环境标志认证虽然会增加遵循成本使得企业出口持续时间下降，但可以通过缓解信息不对称和倒逼技术创新两条渠道延长企业出口持续时间。进一步的拓展性分析表明，出口韧性的提升对环境标志认证影响企业出口持续时间具有正向调节效应。因此，持续扩大环境标志认证的覆盖范围，不断完善环境标志认证的制度设计，不仅是增强企业出口持续时间的有效手段，也是稳定贸易关系并促进经济高质量发展的重要抓手。
关键词：环境标志认证；出口持续时间；出口韧性；信息不对称
Summary: Environmental labeling certification, as a voluntary environmental regulation tool, represents an important initiative by the government to establish a multi-stakeholder environmental governance system. This paper explores the mechanisms through which environmental labeling certification affects the duration of firm export activities. Using the matched data from the Chinese Industrial Enterprises Database (2000–2014), Chinese Customs, and eco-label certified firms released by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, this paper treats environmental labeling certification as a quasi-natural experiment and applies a DID model to identify its net effect on export duration. The results show that environmental labeling certification significantly extends export duration. The findings are robust across placebo tests, alternative sample specifications, and adjustments for potential policy interference. The impact of environmental labeling certification on export duration varies significantly depending on corporate financial constraints, industry pollution intensity, and regional levels of digital economy development. Mechanism testing reveals that while environmental labeling certification can increase compliance costs and reduce export duration, it also mitigates information asymmetry and stimulates technological innovation, leading to longer export duration. Further expansion analysis suggests that export resilience improvement positively moderates the impact of environmental labeling certification on export duration. Therefore, expanding the coverage of environmental labeling certification and improving its institutional design are effective means to enhance export duration, stabilize trade relations, and promote high-quality economic development.
Key words: environmental labelling certification; export duration; export resilience; information asymmetry
DOI：10.16538/j.cnki.jfe.20240828.201
收稿日期：2023-12-28
基金项目：江苏省社会科学基金重大项目“新质生产力与产业深度转型升级研究”（24ZD005）；农村现代化视阈下的中国农村经济管理学理论创新研究（2024JZDZ061）；江苏省高校哲学社会科学实验室− 南京农业大学“大食物安全治理与政策智能实验室”
