Does the price of natural resources affect firms’ total factor productivity? Evidence from a natural experiment in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Shasha Liu ◽  
Shanshan Yin ◽  
Chuan Yin ◽  
Yan Sheng
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Factor Productivity

scholarly journals Effects of Smart City Policies on Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (13) ◽  
pp. 2396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin ◽  
Qu
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Population Expansion ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
City Policy ◽  
The City

When cities develop rapidly, there are negative effects such as population expansion, traffic congestion, resource shortages, and pollution. It has become essential to explore new types of urban development patterns, and thus, the concept of the “smart city” has emerged. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between smart city policies and urban green total factor productivity (GTFP) in the context of China. Based on panel data of 200 cities in China from 2007–2016 and treating smart city policy as a quasi-natural experiment, the paper uses a difference-in-differences propensity score matching (PSM-DID) approach to prevent selection bias. The results show: (a) Smart city policies can significantly increase urban GTFP by 16% to 18%; (b) the larger the city, the stronger and more significant this promotion.

scholarly journals Does the Construction of a Water Ecological Civilization City Improve Green Total Factor Productivity? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11829
Author(s):  
Hongzhong Fan ◽  
Shuang Tao ◽  
Shujahat Haider Hashmi
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Compensation Effect ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Compliance Cost ◽  
Policy Effects ◽  
The Impact

Taking Water Ecological City Pilot (WECP) policy as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper adopts the PSM-DID method to investigate the impact of the WECP policy on the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of China’s prefecture-level cities. The results show that the implementation of the WECP policy significantly inhibits the improvement of GTFP. Furthermore, we find the implementation of the WECP policy has squeezed out government technological expenditures to some extent and aggravated the compliance cost of enterprises, which has not caused the “innovation compensation effect”, thus failing to improve GTFP. The heterogeneity analyses show that the policy effects vary with the imbalance of China’s regional development and resource endowments. Developed regions can better overcome the possible negative impact that comes with policy implementation. Governments need to formulate different policy strategies and plans from an overall macro perspective.

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