@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {14580},
      author = {Chen, Bo and Ren, Meitong and Chen, Liye},
      title = {Impact Analysis of Large-Scale Environmental Spot  Inspection Policy on Green Innovation: Evidence From China},
      journal = {Frontiers in Environmental Science},
      address = {2021-05-27},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {The spot inspection policy has been widely applied in  environmental protection in China. This paper collects  environmental enforcement announcements and green patent  data published by Chinese government agencies from 2006 to  2015. First, it studies the impact of spot inspection on  green innovation with the spatial Durbin model. Then, it  analyzes spatial heterogeneity according to the eastern,  central, and western regions including 29 provinces. The  spot inspection policy significantly increases the green  innovation of a current region with a negative spillover  effect on neighboring regions. Even though this policy has  the best performance in the eastern region, it leads to  pollution transfer into the western region, while being  ineffective in the central region. Further, analysis on the  spatial spillover effects of the 29 provinces proves that  21 provinces have a positive spillover effect, while eight  provinces have a negative spillover effect. The research  study shows that although spot inspection is generally  beneficial to green innovation, pollution transfer and  policy failure exist because of spatial heterogeneity.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14580},
}