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

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.

authors

• Ye, Xinyue

published proceedings

• SUSTAINABILITY

author list (cited authors)

• Chong, Z., Qin, C., & Ye, X.

citation count

• 30

complete list of authors

• Chong, Zhaohui||Qin, Chenglin||Ye, Xinyue

publication date

• August 2017

publisher

• MDPI  Publisher

published in

• Sustainability  Journal

keywords

• Environmental Regulation
• Industrial Structure Change
• Social Media
• Spatial And Social Network Analysis

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3390/su9081465

start page

• 1465

end page

• 1465

volume

• 9

issue

• 8

URL

• https://doi.org/10.3390/su9081465