scholarly journals Urban Environmental Legislation and Green Innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Qinqin Han ◽  
Junjie Shao
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Model Estimation ◽  
Strong Version ◽  
Porter Hypothesis ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The West ◽  
Central Cities

Abstract With the panel data of 218 prefecture-level cities from 2003 to 2017, this paper empirically tested whether urban environmental legislation realized Porter Hypothesis(PH) in China. After a series of model estimation and robustness tests, the results show that urban environmental legislation increased the number of local green patents, which means that the weak Porter Hypothesis was established. However, the urban environmental legislation did not lead to an increase in green total factor productivity(GTFP). In other words, the strong version of PH did not hold. Further analysis shows that urban environmental legislation led to the decline of GTFP and the increase of green patents in the west of China, but not in the east and central cities. Besides, the legislation did not promote GTFP improvement through green innovation in the short term, which means it did not realize process compensation.

scholarly journals Topographic and Glaciological Controls on Holocene Ice-Sheet Margin Dynamics. Central West Greenland

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 307-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.R. Warren ◽  
N.R.J. Hulton
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Greenland Ice Sheet ◽  
Glacial Maximum ◽  
Warm Climate ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The West ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
The Past

The retreat of the West Greenland ice sheet from its Sisimiut (Wisconsinan) glacial maximum, was punctuated by a series of Stillstands or small readvances that formed numerous moraines. These landforms have been interpreted in the past as the result of short-term, regional falls in ablation-season temperatures. However, mapping of the geomorphological evidence south of Ilulissat (Jakobshavn) suggests that retreat behaviour was not primarily governed by climate, and therefore that the former ice margins are not palaeoclimatically significant. During warm climate ice-sheet wastage, the successive quasi-stable positions adopted by the ice margin were largely governed by topography. The retreat of the inherently unstable calving glaciers was arrested only at topographically-determined locations where stability could be achieved.

scholarly journals An experimental study of the ecological impacts of hydraulic bivalve dredging on maerl

2003 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Hauton ◽  
J.M Hall-Spencer ◽  
P.G Moore
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Impact ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The West ◽  
Term Experiment ◽  
Sediment Tracer ◽  
Razor Clams ◽  
Short Term Experiment ◽  
Clyde Sea ◽  
Sea Area

AbstractA short-term experiment to assess the ecological impact of a hydraulic blade dredge on a maerl community was carried out during November 2001 in the Clyde Sea area on the west coast of Scotland. A fluorescent sediment tracer was used to label dead maerl, which was then spread out on the surface of sediment to act as a proxy for living maerl. The fauna collected by the dredge was dominated by the bivalves Dosinia exoleta and Tapes rhomboides, which were found to be intact. The target razor clams Ensis spp. were caught in low numbers, which reflected the low abundance of this genus within the maerl habitat. The hydraulic dredge removed, dispersed and buried the fluorescent maerl at a rate of 5.2 kg m−2 and suspended a large cloud of sediment into the water column, which settled out and blanketed the seabed to a distance of at least 8 m either side of the dredge track. The likely ecological consequences of hydraulic dredging on maerl grounds are discussed, and a case is made for protecting all maerl grounds from hydraulic dredging and establishing them as reservoirs to allow for the recruitment of commercial bivalve populations at adjacent fished sites.

scholarly journals Semiparametric Estimation and Panel Data Clustering Analysis Based on D-Vine and C-Vine

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hong Li ◽  
Yuantao Xie ◽  
Juan Yang ◽  
Di Wang
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Data Clustering ◽  
Semiparametric Estimation ◽  
Similarity Measurement ◽  
Model Estimation ◽  
Similarity Coefficients ◽  
Clustering Model ◽  
Compound Model

This paper proposed a panel data clustering model based on D-vine and C-vine and supported a semiparametric estimation for parameters. These models include a two-step inference function for margins, two-step semiparameter estimation, and stepwise semiparametric estimation. In similarity measurement, similarity coefficients are constructed by a multivariate Hierarchical Nested Archimedean Copula (HNAC) model and compound PCC models, which are HNAC and D-vine compound model and HNAC and C-vine compound model. Estimation solutions and models evaluation are given for these models. In the case study, the clustering results of HNAC and D-vine compound model and HNAC and C-vine compound model are given, and the effect of different copula families on clustering results is also discussed. The result shows the models are effective and useful.

scholarly journals Analysis of heterogeneity and convergence of TFP in culture industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 02009
Author(s):  
Yun Li ◽  
Weijun Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Convergence Rate ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Malmquist Index ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Evaluation Index ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Index Method

Based on the panel data of China’s culture and related industries, this paper constructs an evaluation index system of total factor productivity of culture industry, measures the TFP of culture industry by using the global Malmquist index method, The results show that the TFP index of China’s culture industry decreases by 3.1% every year, which is mainly driven by technological progress, There is an obvious trend of σ convergence among China’s culture industry as a whole, the western region and the subdivided industries. The convergence rate of TFP in the whole culture industry is 2.306%.

Determinants of total factor productivity in Visegrad Group Nuts-2 regions

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Danska-Borsiak
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Orthogonal Transformation ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
The Common ◽  
Visegrad Group

This article attempts to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) for 35 NUTS-2 regions of the Visegrad Group countries and to identify its determinants. The TFP values are estimated on the basis of the Cobb-Douglas production function, with the assumption of regional differences in productivity. The parameters of the productivity function were analysed with panel data, using a fixed effects model. There are many economic variables that influence the TFP level. Some of them are highly correlated, and therefore the factor analysis was applied to extract the common factors – the latent variables that capture the common variance among those observed variables that have similar patterns of responses. This statistical procedure uses an orthogonal transformation to convert a set of observations of possibly correlated variables into a set of values of linearly uncorrelated variables called principal components. Each component is interpreted using the contributions of variables to the respective component. I estimated a dynamic panel data model describing TFP formation by regions. An attempt was made to incorporate the common factors among the model’s explanatory variables. One of them, representing the effects of research activity, proved to be significant.

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