Influence Factors of Polluting Firms' Propensity to Relocate:A Case Study of Shangyu City in Zhejiang
研究了污染企业搬迁意愿的影响因素，发现环境规制、政府谈判和产业关联是主要外部因素，企业规模是主要内部因素，且搬迁意愿与企业规模呈倒U型关系。
With the environment in cities deteriorating rapidly and the urban environmental management and controls getting more stringent, the spatial distribution of polluting enterprises is strongly constrained environmental capacity and governmental regulations. This paper set to explore the factors and mechanism affecting polluting firms' propensity of relocation. This paper established a willingness- to- relocate model for polluting firms based on literature review and empirical study of interviews of 32 polluting firms and relevant local government officials in Shangyu City. The model indicates that polluting firms' relocation decision is impacted by the combination of both internal factors like the firms' attributes and external factors such as environmental regulations, government bargaining and industrial relation.Empirical study suggests environmental regulations, government bargaining and industrial relation are three major external factors affecting the propensity and firm size is a major internal factor. Firms with bigger size tend to have proportionally lower environmental regulation compliance cost and lower dependence on local industrial connection, but they also have stronger bargaining power with local government. So the complex interaction of these factors results in a roughly inverted U shaped relationship between firm relocation propensity and firm size.