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| Effect and Transmission Mechanism of Green Structural Monetary Policy |
| MA Li, ZHANG Renzhong, MA Wei
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College of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University;
Postdoctoral Innovation and Practice Base of Guilin Bank Corporation, Guilin Bank |
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Abstract Starting from November 2021, the PBC has created and implemented two green structural monetary policies (Carbon Emission Reduction Support Tool and Special Loan for Clean and Efficient Coal Utilization), which provide 60% and 100% refinancing capital support to the principal of eligible carbon emission reduction loans and coal cleanup and efficient utilization loans of commercial banks. For more than two years, China's green structural monetary policy has been expanding and the scale of the balance has been growing. At the end of the 3rd quarter of 2023, the carbon emission reduction support tools balance issued by the PBC amounted to 509.8 billion yuan, and the balance of special refinancing loans to support the clean and efficient utilization of coal amounted to 262.4 billion yuan. Green structural monetary policy has an important role in promoting green and high-quality development, but there still need much more improvement and the transmission channel should be further dredged.
Previous scholars have mostly quantitatively analyzed the impact of a specific green credit policy or green financial policy on green development, and most existing research related to green structural monetary policy is based on qualitative description and policy analysis, and there has not been a quantitative study specifically focusing on the effect of the implementation of green structural monetary policy. Previous scholars have not analyzed the transmission mechanism of green structural monetary policy on carbon emission reduction and energy efficiency improvement of enterprises through the technical method of data testing, and less carried out heterogeneity analysis based on the specific situation and characteristics of the target enterprises, which makes it difficult to put forward policy suggestions to promote the green development of enterprises. Based on this, it is of practical significance to test the effect of green structural monetary policy and analyze the transmission mechanism of green structural monetary policy. This paper helps the central bank to understand and grasp the implementation effect of the green structural monetary policy, timely and appropriately adjust the next stage of green structural monetary policy strength and direction, and has a positive role in promoting the implementation of green finance in the five major articles proposed by the Central Financial Work Conference.
This paper firstly combs through the monetary policies of central banks in various countries to promote green development, including green QE, green mortgage collateral expansion, green preferential interest rate auctions, green violation sanctions, and green structural monetary policy. The research summarizes the results of previous scholars on the monetary policy, the transmission mechanism of the monetary policy, and the heterogeneous effects of the monetary policy to promote green and low-carbon development. From this, three hypotheses are distilled: green structural monetary policy is conducive to improving the carbon emission reduction performance and energy use efficiency of enterprises; green structural monetary policy can promote the green development of enterprises by enhancing their green innovation, reducing their financing costs and increasing their green investment; and green structural monetary policy has differentiated effects on enterprises in different regions, with different pollution levels and different nature of the effect.
Subsequently, this paper examines the implementation effect and the transmission path of the green structural monetary policy. It uses DID model to test the stage-by-stage effect of green structural monetary policy (including carbon emission reduction support tools and special re-loans to support clean and efficient use of coal), and uses a mediation effect model to verify the effect of the green structural monetary policy on the implementation of green structural monetary policy by enhancing the green innovation of enterprises (using the number of green patent applications of the enterprise as an alternative indicator), lowering the cost of enterprise financing (using the short-term and long-term financing cost of the enterprise as an alternative indicator), and increasing enterprise green investment (using the green investment of the enterprise 's construction and management costs as an alternative indicator), and analyzes the channels to the enterprise level which significantly improves the enterprise's performance in carbon emission reduction and energy utilization efficiency transmission mechanism. At the same time, this paper also tests the differentiated impact of green structural monetary policy on enterprises of different natures. Clean energy enterprises, energy-saving and environmental protection enterprises, carbon science and technology enterprises, and carbon-neutral enterprises are selected as the supporting enterprises of the carbon emission reduction support tools, and energy-efficient enterprises, green and low-carbon enterprises, low-carbon science and technology enterprises, and energy transformation and upgrading enterprises are selected as the supporting enterprises of the special refinancing policy for the clean and efficient utilization of coal. Using the moderating effect model, this paper verifies the differentiated impact of green structural monetary policy on enterprises in different regions, with different pollution levels and of different natures, and puts forward policy suggestions to dredge the transmission path of green structural monetary policy and improve the regulatory effect of green structural monetary policy.
The findings show that: green structural monetary policy promotes carbon emission reduction and improves energy utilization efficiency by promoting corporate green innovation, reducing financing costs, and increasing green investment; the policy has differentiated impacts on enterprises in different regions, with different levels of pollution, and of different natures. The policy recommendations are: increase the implementation of green structural monetary policy and improve the effectiveness of the policy; promote enterprise green innovation, reduce financing costs and increase green investment; implement differentiated green structural monetary policy regulation.
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Received: 06 October 2023
Published: 01 August 2024
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