中文摘要：

本文采用结构方程模型,分析环境规制、创新能力和经济后果之间的因果关系及路径。结果显示,环境规制有利于直接提高经济发展水平,同时环境规制也有利于增强区域创新能力,且区域创新能力的提升也有利于促进区域经济发展水平,但环境规制对经济后果的直接作用大于通过创新能力对经济后果的间接作用。这也支持了波特假说理论。

英文摘要：

The paper analyzes the relation among environmental regulation, innovation ability and eco-nomic consequences based on ＂ Structural Equation Modeling＂ . The result shows that environmental regu-lation can not only help to enhance economic growth directly, but also it benefits the improvement of re-gional innovation ability, which promotes the development level ofregional economy. However, the direct effect of environmental regulation on the economic consequences is greater than the effect of innovation a-bility on them, which supports well the ＂Porter Hypothesis＂.