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Article

Does Environmental Regulation Help Mitigate Factor Misallocation?—Theoretical Simulations Based on a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model and the Perspective of TFP

by
Xu Dong
1,
Yali Yang
2,
Qinqin Zhuang
3,
Weili Xie
1 and
Xiaomeng Zhao
4,*
1
School of Economics, Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, Zhengzhou 450046, China
2
School of Information Management, Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, Zhengzhou 450046, China
3
Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China
4
School of Economics and Business Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(6), 3642; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063642
Submission received: 9 January 2022 / Revised: 4 March 2022 / Accepted: 16 March 2022 / Published: 18 March 2022
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Abstract

How environmental regulation affects factor allocation is becoming an emerging hot topic in academia. In this paper, we construct a dynamic general equilibrium model accommodating environmental regulatory shock based on the H-K framework to explain the impact of environmental regulation on factor misallocation from the perspective of aggregate total factor productivity loss changes, and numerical simulation results are provided for several representative scenarios. The results show that environmental regulation has a significant effect on factor market misallocation, but this effect is not simply positive or negative, and it mainly depends on the firms’ initial factor allocation status and the intensity of the shock. Reducing the intensity of environmental regulation for firms that face stronger distortion helps mitigate factor misallocation and, on the contrary, the same policy could exacerbate factor market misallocation. Under the environmental regulatory shock condition, firms’ overhead labor input has a moderating effect on the factor allocation mitigation of environmental regulation. Distorted firms’ higher overhead labor share inhibits the correction of factor misallocation by environmental regulation. And reducing firms’ overhead labor share amplifies the correcting effect of environmental regulation on factor misallocation.
Keywords: environmental regulation; factor misallocation; total factor productivity; dynamic general equilibrium model; numerical simulation environmental regulation; factor misallocation; total factor productivity; dynamic general equilibrium model; numerical simulation

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Dong, X.; Yang, Y.; Zhuang, Q.; Xie, W.; Zhao, X. Does Environmental Regulation Help Mitigate Factor Misallocation?—Theoretical Simulations Based on a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model and the Perspective of TFP. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 3642. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063642

AMA Style

Dong X, Yang Y, Zhuang Q, Xie W, Zhao X. Does Environmental Regulation Help Mitigate Factor Misallocation?—Theoretical Simulations Based on a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model and the Perspective of TFP. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(6):3642. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063642

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Dong, Xu, Yali Yang, Qinqin Zhuang, Weili Xie, and Xiaomeng Zhao. 2022. "Does Environmental Regulation Help Mitigate Factor Misallocation?—Theoretical Simulations Based on a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model and the Perspective of TFP" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 6: 3642. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063642

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Dong, X., Yang, Y., Zhuang, Q., Xie, W., & Zhao, X. (2022). Does Environmental Regulation Help Mitigate Factor Misallocation?—Theoretical Simulations Based on a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model and the Perspective of TFP. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), 3642. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063642

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