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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The Impact of Environmental Regulation
on the Regional Cross-Border E-Commerce
Green Innovation: Based on System GMM
and Threshold Effects Modeling
1
School of Economics and Management, North University of China, Taiyuan, China
2
Shandong Youth University of Political Science, China
Submission date: 2024-02-20
Final revision date: 2024-03-18
Acceptance date: 2024-04-13
Online publication date: 2024-05-29
Publication date: 2025-01-09
Corresponding author
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(2):1347-1362
KEYWORDS
green innovation efficiencyenvironmental regulationupgrading of industrial structureintellectual property protectionsystem GMM
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Environmental regulation is an important way to address the negative externalities of environmental
governance and to advance regional green innovation efficiency. This paper takes the panel data
of 30 provinces and municipalities from 2011 to 2021 as the research object, adopts Super-SBM to
measure the regional cross-border e-commerce green innovation efficiency (EGIE) in each region,
utilizes the system GMM method to test the impact effect of environmental regulation on EGIE
and the mechanism of its action, and carves out the dynamic evolution and spatial differentiation
in terms of the time series of the spatial and temporal evolution of EGIE. The results show that
environmental regulation significantly promotes the enhancement of EGIE at the 1% level (β = 0.105).
In terms of the impact mechanism, environmental regulations increase EGIE by improving the level of
industrial structure upgrading, and intellectual property protection negatively regulates the relationship
between environmental regulations and EGIE (β=-0.270). Threshold analysis finds that there
is a significant double threshold effect of industrial agglomeration on environmental regulations to
promote EGIE growth. When the industrial agglomeration value (AGG≤0.0072) is active, it will
promote the green innovation efficiency of cross-border e-commerce, but exceeding the threshold
value of industrial agglomeration (AGG=0.0202) will weaken the promotion effect of environmental
regulation on EGIE. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact effect of environmental regulation
in addressing the relationship between environmental pollution control and promoting EGIE, with
a view to providing a decision-making basis for the coordinated development of regional cross-border
e-commerce and the environment.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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