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Empirical Research on the Impact of Social Supervision and Government Regulation on the Safety of Underground Pipelines in China's Cities:Microscopic Data Evidence from Underground Pipeline Accidents |
LIU Xiangfeng1,2, WU Yingjie1 |
1.China Institute of Regulation Research, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
2.Government Regulation and Public Policy Research Institute, Key Professional Think Tank in Zhejiang Province |
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Abstract: The safety of urban underground pipelines has become a key determining factor of a city's high-quality development, which has attracted the attention of the government and academia. However, whether social supervision and government supervision can improve the safety of urban underground pipelines is still an important research topic. Using the monthly micro data from April 2018 to September 2020 and Baidu search index data of provinces and cities across the country, this paper adopts the ordered Probit model to analyze the impact of social supervision and government supervision on the safety of urban underground pipelines in China. It is found that the role of social supervision on underground pipeline safety is mainly reflected in the field of low-risk level, and government supervision can effectively make up for the insufficient effect of medium and high-risk level of social supervision. At the same time, the means and intensity of government supervision should be targeted. The high-intensity government supervision resources are mainly allocated to high-risk areas, which cannot be simply "averaged", or it may weaken the effect of government supervision. Through the heterogeneity analysis, we suggest that the government should implement the classified supervision strategy based on the spatial distribution and types of accidents, so as to avoid investing a lot of supervision resources in advance, resulting in a waste of resources.
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Received: 06 March 2022
Published: 15 August 2022
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