Does Stricter Command-and-Control Environmental Regulation Promote Total Factor Productivity? Evidence from China’s Industrial Enterprises

<div>Dynamics of COD emission reduction targets. Note: the figure plots the estimated coefficients of the city’s environmental regulation and year dummy. The reference year is 2001.</div>

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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Figure 1: Does Stricter Command-and-Control Environmental Regulation Promote Total Factor Productivity? Evidence from China’s Industrial Enterprises 