Abstract: 　　　The paper merges the China’s industrial enterprises data and import -export trade data during 2000 and 2006, and tests the effect of environmental regulation on enterprises export destination. The results show that environmental regulation promotes enterprise export destination to developed countries, and also improve firm’s productivity. The instrumental variable estimation results also prove that the results are more robust. We also expand the scope of the developed countries and distinguish the corporate ownership of firms, the results support our conclusion. This suggests that the innovation effect of environmental regulation provides quality assurance and technical support for the firms export to developed countries. In addition, export destination choice plays an important role in raising firms’ productivity. Therefore, reasonable environmental regulation is not only beneficial to the management of pollution , but also has important significance to firms’ productivity.

摘要： 本文运用2000-2006年中国工业企业数据和进出口海关数据的合并数据，采用Heckman两阶段选择模型考察了环境规制与企业出口目的地选择行为之间的关系，并进一步检验了环境规制对出口选择发达国家企业生产率的影响。研究结果表明：环境规制促进了企业出口发达国家，并且能够使得出口发达国家企业的生产率得到更大幅度提高。基于工具变量法以及扩大发达国家或地区界定范围的估计结果都验进一步证了本文研究结论的稳健性。研究还发现，环境规制对企业出口目的地选择行为的影响并没有因为企业所有制不同而存在差异，说明环境规制引致的创新效应为企业出口发达国家提供了质量保障和技术支持，而出口发达国家的学习效应和技术溢出效应对企业生产率的再提高具有重要作用。因此，合理的环境规制不仅有利于环境污染的预防，而且有利于进一步提升企业国际竞争力。