Research On The Impact Of Environmental Regulation On The Position Of Global Value Chains In Services

With the rapid advancement of economic globalization,manufacturers around the world participate in the production of products together,forming a chain production model.Under this model,the industrial competitiveness of a country is no longer only reflected in the labor force structure and the ratio of industrial output,but also in the country’s division of labor position in the global value chain.In recent years,the global economic pattern has gradually transitioned from an industrial economy to a service economy,and the World Trade Report 2014 points out that the economic value created by service activities has accounted for two-thirds of the total value,and the proportion of the service sector in the national economy has rapidly increased,becoming a new power engine for the development of the national economy.With the gradual change of the economy,environmental pollution is becoming more and more prominent and deteriorating worldwide,and many countries around the world are using environmental regulations to achieve the goal of environmental protection.Although the service industry is less polluting than the manufacturing industry,the pollution generated by the service industry also deserves attention,such as noise pollution and air pollution from transportation,water pollution from the water transportation industry,and a large amount of solid waste from the retail industry.The implementation of environmental regulations can still affect the development level of a country’s service industry in many ways,which in turn affects the international competitiveness of the country’s service industry and its position in the global value chain.In order to analyze how environmental regulation affects the relative position of global value chains,this paper firstly introduces the meaning of environmental regulation and the relevant theoretical basis,and at the same time composes the process of refining the connotation of global value chains and the accounting method,analyzes and summarizes the ways in which environmental regulation affects the position of global value chains on the basis of previous studies and proposes a research hypothesis.Secondly,this paper compiles the environmental regulation indices of 41 countries in the world and measures the service industry GVC status indices of the above countries using Koopman’s method,which visually demonstrates the current situation of environmental regulation and service industry GVC status of 41 countries through data;next,we conduct an empirical study using data of 41 countries in 2006,2008,2010,2012 and 2014,and adopt a linear interpolation method The odd years of EPI data are complemented with robustness tests to investigate the impact of environmental regulation on the global value chain position of the service industry.The empirical results show that environmental regulation can improve the relative position of a country or region in the global value chain of service industry,which is more obvious in countries with higher degree of development,and within a moderate range,the greater the intensity of environmental regulation,the more obvious the effect on the improvement of the position of the global value chain of service industry.Accordingly,this paper proposes that the country should further enhance the intensity of environmental regulation,enrich the means of environmental regulation,improve innovation capability,increase R&D initiative,optimize the business environment,attract high-quality foreign investment,actively participate in the division of labor in the value chain,and improve value acquisition capability,so as to improve the international competitiveness of the service industry,provide new momentum for national development,and show new achievements.