Environmental Regulation and Industrial Structure Change in China: Integrating Spatial and Social Network Analysis

Zhaohui Chong, Chenglin Qin and Xinyue Ye
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Zhaohui Chong: School of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Chenglin Qin: School of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
Xinyue Ye: Department of Geography and Computational Social Science Lab, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240, USA

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: Social networking has become a crucial factor affecting regional economic activities. Employing the panel data of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta in China, we examine the influence of environmental regulation on industrial structure and the role that social networks play in the spillover effect. Using the social media data from the Weibo API and the geo-information of enterprises, we construct the Weibo network and the enterprise network, then we analyze the network structures by employing a social network analysis method. The empirical results find the evidence of the spillover effects of environmental regulation through the above two networks by using network linkages as weight matrices in spatial econometric regressions.

Keywords: environmental regulation; spatial and social network analysis; industrial structure change; social media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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