Journal of Systems & Management ›› 2024, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 721-734.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-2542.2024.03.012

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Choice of Subsidy Policy Instruments for Promoting Green Technological Progress

ZHANG Wenqing1, DONG Jingrong2, LI Tingting3, CHEN Yuke2   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China; 2. School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China; 3. School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Received:2023-03-17 Revised:2023-06-18 Online:2024-05-28 Published:2024-06-04

促进绿色技术进步的补贴政策工具选择

张文卿1,董景荣2,李婷婷3,陈宇科2   

  1. 1.重庆大学经济与工商管理学院,重庆 400044;2.重庆师范大学 经济与管理学院,重庆 401331;3.北京师范大学经济与资源管理研究院,北京 100875
  • 基金资助:

    国家社会基金一般项目(18BJY093);重庆市社会科学规划重大项目(2020ZDJJ01

Abstract:

The existing literature focuses on the impact of government subsidies on technological progress, but does not pay attention to their effects on green technological progress, especially neglecting the differential effects of various subsidy policy instruments. This paper employs the biased technological progress framework proposed by Acemoglu et al. to mathematically deduce the differential impacts and mechanisms of environmental subsidies and research and development (R&D) subsidies on green technological progress. Subsequently, the theoretical results are empirically tested by decomposing and measuring the provincial industrial green technological progress index in China from 2001 to 2020. The result shows that both environmental subsidies and R&D subsidies have a positive impact on green technological progress. Environmental subsidies mainly promote green technological progress by enhancing technology diffusion, and their effect is negatively moderated by relative energy prices. R&D subsidies promote green technological progress by incentivizing independent R&D, and their effect is positively moderated by relative energy prices. Further analysis reveals that with the deepening of China’s energy market reform and the market-oriented transformation of environmental policies in recent years, relative energy prices have continued to rise, which has helped to increase the promoting effect of R&D subsidies on green technological progress. It is recommended that the central government of China coordinate the design of energy policies, environmental policies, and industrial subsidy plans to guide local governments to strengthen their efforts in environmental subsidies and R&D subsidies. Local governments in China should adjust their subsidy strategies in a timely and appropriate manner based on a precise understanding of national energy and environmental policy deployments. This will allow them to gradually shift policy resources from environmental subsidies towards R&D subsidies.

Key words:

green technological , progress, environmental subsidies, research and development , (R&, D) , subsidies, policy instrument, biased technological , progress

摘要:

现有文献关注政府补贴对技术进步的影响,但未重视其绿色技术进步效应,尤其忽视了对不同补贴政策工具对绿色技术进步的差异化作用的探讨。基于偏向性技术进步框架,梳理演绎环保补贴和研发补贴对绿色技术进步的差异化影响及其机制;在测算并分解2001~2020年中国省级工业绿色技术进步指数的基础上,对理论结果进行实证检验。研究发现:环保补贴和研发补贴均正向影响绿色技术进步;环保补贴主要通过强化技术扩散促进绿色技术进步,其效果受到能源相对价格的负向调节;研发补贴通过激励自主研发促进绿色技术进步,其效果受到能源相对价格的正向调节。进一步分析发现,随着国内能源市场改革的深化和环境政策的市场化转型,能源相对价格持续上涨,助推了研发补贴的绿色技术进步激励效应相对提高。基于此,建议国家统筹设计能源政策、环境政策和产业补贴规划,继续引导地方政府加大环保补贴和研发补贴力度;建议地方政府在准确把握国家能源与环境政策部署基础上适时适度调整补贴策略,逐步引导政策资源由环保补贴向研发补贴倾斜。

关键词:

绿色技术进步, 环保补贴, 研发补贴, 政策工具, 偏向性技术进步

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