2023年8月(第37卷第8期)Aug.,2023(Vol.37,No.8)EastChinaEconomicManagement城市低碳治理对生态效率的影响——基于低碳城市试点政策的准自然实验郭炳南,唐利,张浩(江苏科技大学人文社科学院,江苏镇江212100)摘要:低碳城市建设和生态效率提升是城市实现高质量发展的重要途径。基于“波特假说”和“遵循成本假说”理论,文章利用2007—2018年中国283个城市的面板数据,运用DID方法实证考察了低碳城市试点政策对生态效率的影响。研究发现:低碳城市试点政策能够显著提升城市生态效率水平,这一结论在分别进行PSM-DID检验、平行趋势检验、安慰剂检验等多种情景下依然稳健;异质性检验表明,低碳城市试点政策对东部地区以及非资源型城市的正向作用较强;从影响机制看,低碳城市试点政策通过推动产业结构升级和技术创新,从而促进生态效率提升;进一步地,低碳城市试点的政策效应存在正向空间溢出效应,即其对相邻城市的生态效率提升具有显著正向影响。关键词:低碳治理;低碳城市试点政策;生态效率;双重差分;空间溢出效应中图分类号:F299.2;X321文献标识码:A文章编号:1007-5097(2023)08-0082-09TheImpactofUrbanLow-carbonGovernanceonEcologicalEfficiency:AQuasi-naturalExperimentBasedontheLow-carbonCityPilotPolicyGUOBingnan,TANGLi,ZHANGHao(SchoolofHumanities&SocialSciences,JiangsuUniversityofScienceandTechnology,Zhenjiang212100,China)Abstract:Lowcarboncityconstructionandecologicalefficiencyimprovementareimportantwaysforcitiestoachievehigh-qualitydevelopment.Basedonthetheoriesof"Porterhypothesis"and"costcompliancehypothesis",thispaperusesthepaneldataof283citiesinChinafrom2007to2018toempiricallyexaminetheimpactoflow-carboncitypilotpoli‐ciesonecologicalefficiencyusingDIDmethod.Itisfoundthatlow-carboncitypilotpoliciescansignificantlyimprovethelevelofurbanecologicalefficiency,andthisconclusionisstillrobustundermultiplescenariossuchasPSM-DIDtest,paralleltrendtest,andplacebotest;heterogeneitytestindicatesthatthepilotpolicyforlow-carboncitieshasastrongpositiveeffectontheeasternregionandnonresource-basedcities;fromtheperspectiveofimpactmechanism,low-carboncitypilotpoliciespromoteecologicalefficiencybypromotingindustrialstructu...