Sspatial Externalities, Environmental Pollution and Total Factor Productivity Growth in China-Evidence From a Spatial Panel Data Set of Provincial-level
By employing a spatial panel data set of provinciallevel data for the years 1992-2008 periods in China, we seek to shed light on this topic by the linkage of the productivity of economic growth and environmental pollution and its impact of spatial dependence. For this purpose we calculate in a step the efficiency and productivity via DEA-Malmquist. In a second step we regress the derived values against environmental pollution and its spatial externalities via Spatial Panel Data Model. The findings firstly provide a fairly remarkable confirmation that environmental emissions have a negative effect on TFP growth, supporting the Porter Hypothesis. Secondly, a 1％ change in unobserved neighbourhood shocks will follow a 0.4239％ spatial pattern of TFP growth during the years for 1992-2008.What is more, the spatial dependence for changes for TFP growth was twice in the years for 2000-2008 periods than 1992-1999 periods.
Spatial dependence spatial panel data models environmental pollution TFPgrowth China
Xiaowei Zhao Zhigang Gao
School of Economics,Renmin University of China;59 Zhongguancun Street,Beijing 100872,China School of Economics,Xinjiang University of Finance & Economy China,No.15 North of Beijing Road,Urmuq
国际会议
福州
英文
440-444
2011-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）