Market Integration, Industrial Structure, and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China

Kun Zheng, Hongbing Deng (), Kangni Lyu, Shuang Yang () and Yu Cao ()
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Kun Zheng: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China
Hongbing Deng: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China
Kangni Lyu: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China
Shuang Yang: Department of Information Engineering, Wuhan Marine College, Wuhan 430062, China
Yu Cao: Business School, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 24, 1-22

Abstract: Against the backdrop of China’s carbon emission reduction targets and the promotion of the construction of a unified domestic market, what kind of carbon emission effect has market integration had in weakening regional barriers and optimizing resource allocation? This paper adopts a two-way fixed effects analysis based on China’s provincial panel data from 2003 to 2019. It uses a mediation model to explore the relationship between market integration and carbon emissions. Furthermore, industrial rationalization and upgrade are the basis for examining whether a competitive or cooperative relationship exists between the carbon emission effects generated and promoting market integration between regions. The study finds a negative relationship between market integration and carbon emissions. In addition, there is significant heterogeneity in the effect of market integration on carbon emissions, and the influence effect is mainly in central China; industrial rationalization can play an enhanced role in the process of the negative impact of market integration on carbon emissions, further enhancing the negative contribution of market integration to carbon emissions. However, market integration can weaken its negative impact on carbon emissions with the industrial upgrade, and there may still be invisible barriers between regions in promoting market integration barriers.

Keywords: market integration; carbon emissions; industrial rationalization; industrial upgrade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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