Industrial green total factor productivity based on an MML index in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shen Zhong ◽  
Lang Wang ◽  
Fengge Yao
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Factor Productivity

scholarly journals Impact of collaborative innovation on green total factor productivity in Yangtze River Economic Belt: Analysis based on endogenous spatial-temporal weight matrix

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
lei Wu ◽  
Xiaoyan Jia ◽  
Jie Lv ◽  
Li Gao
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Weight Matrix ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Collaborative Innovation

Abstract Technological innovation can promote high-quality economic growth. This paper discusses the promotion of green total factor productivity from the perspective of collaborative innovation in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Firstly, the evaluation index system of collaborative innovation level is constructed from two aspects of collaborative innovation elements and collaborative innovation environment. Then the entropy method is used to measure its development level. The results show that the collaborative innovation level of provinces in the Yangtze River Economic Belt presents an increasing trend year by year. Meanwhile, there are regional differences, which is characterized by 'high in the middle reaches, middle in the downstream and low in the upstream' Secondly, the SDM model based on endogenous spatio-temporal weight matrix is constructed to analyze the influencing factors of green total factor productivity. The results show that collaborative innovation in the Yangtze River Economic Belt has significant negative impact on green total factor productivity in terms of spatial interaction and fiscal expenditure also has a negative impact. The spatial interaction between environmental protection and opening up has a significant positive impact on green total factor productivity. However, the spatial interaction between industrial structure and human capital on green total factor productivity is not obvious. Finally, this paper puts forward some policy suggestions to improve green total factor productivity.

scholarly journals Carbon Sequestration Total Factor Productivity Growth and Decomposition: A Case of the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6809
Author(s):  
Guangming Rao ◽  
Bin Su ◽  
Jinlian Li ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
Yanhua Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Efficiency Change ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Estimation Model

To find out whether carbon sequestration is both effective at mitigating climate change and promoting economic growth, in this paper, by adopting a stochastic frontier panel model with translog production function, carbon sequestration is incorporated into endogenous variables to establish estimation model of carbon sequestration total factor productivity (CSTFP) and examine CSTFP growth and its drivers decomposition of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) of China in three estimations. The result shows that, (1) compared to traditional TFP growth, CSTFP growth in YREB is improved by 26.74 percentages (from −26.55% to 0.20%), contributed by three positive drivers of technical efficiency change (28.59%), technological progress change (18.55%), and scale efficiency change (3.99%); (2) different CSTFP growth exists in three watershed segments of YREB, which firstly is the upper reaches (0.62%), then the lower reaches (0.11%) and the middle reaches (−0.14%). Improved CSTFP growth owes to carbon sequestration’s harmonious symbiosis where natural ecosystems and human activities are naturally blended while insufficient synergies are bottleneck for promotion of CSTFP growth in YREB. Related policy suggestions are provided in the end. The proposed analysis framework is efficient to disclose CSTFP growth in YREB, and can also be applied to similar analysis on CSTFP in regions and extended to multi-country/region analysis.

scholarly journals Impact of Regional Green Development Strategy on Environmental Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2496
Author(s):  
Kailu Guo ◽  
Shixiang Li ◽  
Zhanqi Wang ◽  
Jianru Shi ◽  
Jun Bai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Green Development ◽  
Negative Effect

Chinese government policy officially identify the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) as one of regional green development strategies firstly in 2014. This strategy can be regarded as quasi-natural experiment, this paper aims to test its impact on regional environmental total factor productivity (TFP). First, slack-based measure model is used to calculate the environmental TFP from 2005 to 2017 at provincial level. Second, based on Chinese official statistics, differences-in-differences (DID) method is applied to construct an evaluation model of policy effect, combining with the kernel matching in propensity score matching (PSM) method. The results show that environmental TFP of YREB has significant spatial differences, with characteristic of high-east and low-west, its average level is 11.69 percentage points higher than the national average. YREB strategy promotes regional economic growth, but it does no effect on the regional environmental TFP yet. Modelling suggests that YREB strategy may play a role in the short term. From the significance of the control variables, infrastructure construction level is positively correlated with environmental TFP, while per capita GDP, financial development and energy consumption intensity have negative effect on environmental TFP. Based on this, policymakers should focus on green development, promoting industrial transformation, and enhancing environmental protection.

scholarly journals Research on Green Total Factor Productivity of Yangtze River Economic Belt Based on Environmental Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 12242
Author(s):  
Junxia He ◽  
Luxia Wang ◽  
Decai Tang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Efficiency Index ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Treatment Rate

With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is facing many environmental problems that need to be solved in the process of development. This paper aims to analyze the environmental governance effects of nine provinces and two municipalities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2009 to 2018. Firstly, based on the input-output index, the slacks-based measure (SBM) undesirable model and Malmquist (ML) index were used to measure the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of the YREB from 2009 to 2018. The results showed that the technological progress index contributed the most to the GTFP of the YREB, followed by the pure technical efficiency index and the scale efficiency index. Environmental regulation has no significant impact on the GTFP of the YREB. Secondly, by analyzing the effect of environmental governance in the YREB, the results show that the main reasons for the ineffective environmental governance in the YREB are the redundant input of environmental resources, excessive unwanted output, and low harmless treatment rate of municipal solid waste, rather than the low level of urban environmental management. Finally, this paper provides recommendations for the ineffective provinces and municipalities of the YREB to further optimize the input-output factors of environmental governance.

scholarly journals Research on Environmental Regulation and Green Total Factor Productivity in Yangtze River Delta: From the Perspective of Financial Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12453
Author(s):  
Jia Li ◽  
Decai Tang ◽  
Acheampong Paul Tenkorang ◽  
Zhuoran Shi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
Financial Cooperation ◽  
The Yrd

This paper employs the global Malmquist Luenberger (GML) index and the System Generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation method to investigate the influence of both environmental regulation and financial development on green total factor productivity in 41 cities of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in China from 2003–2019. We select the relevant input-output data to measure the green total factor productivity (GTFP) and its decomposition index including undesirable output. The results show that the GTFP and its decomposition index in the YRD have a slow fluctuating upward trend. The YRD mainly depends on improving the level of technological progress and environmental governance to promote the improvement of regional economic green development level. The empirical research results show that there is an inverted U relationship between environmental regulation and GTFP in the YRD, too strict environmental regulation will inhibit the growth of green total factor productivity. By adding control variables, the inflection point of environmental regulation is 0.5034, which is lower than that without control variables. There is a strong interaction and superposition effect between financial development and environmental regulation, which is closely related to the established financial cooperation mechanism, perfect financial system arrangement and cross-regional financial cooperation platform in the YRD. Government intervention should be reduced, the introduction of foreign capital should be controlled appropriately, foreign capital should be guided to green industries, and the use efficiency of foreign capital should be improved. This paper holds that we should pay attention to the strength of environmental regulation, prevent overcorrection, increase the guidance of credit funds, deepen the reform of the financial system, appropriately intervene in the market by the government, strengthen the guidance of foreign capital, and promote the development and transformation of the green economy in the YRD region with the help of several policies.

scholarly journals Yangtze River Basin Environmental Regulation Efficiency Based on the Empirical Analysis of 97 Cities from 2005 to 2016

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5697
Author(s):  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Decai Tang ◽  
Brandon J. Bethel
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Yangtze River Basin ◽  
Efficiency Index ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Factor Productivity

The Yangtze River Basin (YRB) is an important area for China’s economic development and environmental governance. The aim of this paper is to analyze the total factor productivity across 97 cities in the YRB from 2005 to 2016. Based on the input and output indicators from 2005 to 2016, this paper selects the SE-SBM model to measure the environmental regulation efficiency (ERE) of 97 cities in the YRB and then uses the DEA–Malmquist index to measure the total factor productivity of the region. Results suggest that the overall ERE in the YRB is weakly ineffective, while ERE in the central and eastern coastal areas is relatively high. ERE matches the economic foundation and development of the city. YRB environmental regulation efficiency was in descending order in the middle stream, upstream, and downstream. The efficiency of regional environmental regulation shows an N-type development trend, with obvious characteristics of phased development. Moreover, the total factor productivity of the YRB has shown a downward trend. The scale efficiency index and the technical efficiency index have positively boosted the total factor productivity, while the technological progress index has dragged down the total factor productivity of the area. The contribution to the total factor productivity index is in order of scale efficiency, technological progress index, and technological efficiency index in the downstream. The overall inputs and outputs of the YRB have great development potential. The inputs have not been fully utilized, the outputs have not been maximized, and the regional differentiation is significantly observable.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document