Road transportation green productivity and its threshold effects from environmental regulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Xu ◽  
Yeqing Wang ◽  
Chenchen Gao ◽  
Hongwei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Threshold Effects ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Green Productivity

scholarly journals Environmental Regulation and Green Productivity: Evidence of the Moderating Effect of Chinese Environmental Decentralization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Chen ◽  
Xiaoli Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
County Level ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Green Productivity ◽  
Pollutant Discharge ◽  
Dynamic Panel Models ◽  
The Impact

Environmental decentralization (ED), or the allocation of environmental protection affairs and responsibilities among various administrative authorities, affects the effectiveness of environmental regulation in promoting green total factor productivity (GTFP). Based on panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2001 to 2015, this paper employs dynamic panel models to test the effects of environmental regulations (environmental protection investment, ENV; pollutant discharge fees, PDF) on GTFP, with or without being influenced by ED. Without the impact of ED, GTFP is significantly inhibited by ENV while significantly promoted by PDF. Considering the impact of ED, with the strengthening of ED, the negative effects of ENV on GTFP is significant; contrarily, the positive effects of PDF on GTFP is significant; improving provincial ED adds negative effects of ENV, while reduces the positive effects of PDF; increasing prefectural ED reduces negative effects of ENV; expanding county-level ED adds the positive effects of PDF. Therefore, to boost GTFP growth, prefectural environmental protection authorities should have more autonomy in ENV, while the county-level should have more autonomy in PDF.

scholarly journals Environmental regulation and green productivity of the construction industry in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jingxiao Zhang ◽  
Si Pu ◽  
Simon P Philbin ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
Martin Skitmore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Green Productivity

scholarly journals Threshold Effects of Environmental Regulation on Total Factor Energy Efficiency in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Ling Yun Huang ◽  
Hui Qiang Xie
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Threshold Effects ◽  
Threshold Values ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the threshold effects of environmental regulation on China’s total factor energy efficiency (TFEE) using technological innovation (as measured by patents) as a threshold variable. Using the Slacksbased measure-undesirable (SBM-undesirable) output model, we first estimate TFEEs in 30 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2011 under the constraints of energy conservation and emissions reduction. We then analyze the impact of environmental regulation on TFEE based on the panel threshold regression model. The results show that the average TFEE in China from 2000 to 2011 is 0.503, indicating that this measure can be significantly improved. However, environmental regulation has threshold effects on TFEE. Stringent environmental regulation can only improve TFEEs in provinces with technological innovation levels between the first and second threshold values. When technological innovation levels are below the first or above the second threshold value, tighter environmental regulation would lower TFEE. The results suggest that environmental regulation does not always enhance TFEE and that the positive effect of environmental regulation on TFEE must fall within a range of threshold values. In addition, improving the technological innovation level and adjusting the industrial structure have positive effects on TFEE, while the irrational energy consumption structure has a negative effect on TFEE.

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