An Empirical Study on Environmental Regulatory Costs &Environmental TFP  

作　　者：李小胜 安庆贤 

机构地区：[1]School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui University of Finance and Economics [2]School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China

出　　处：《China Economist》2013年第4期96-108,共13页中国经济学人（英文版）

基　　金：This research is funded by Natural Science Foundation of China （71171001） ;the Ministry of Education＇s General Project of Humanitarian and Social Science （Approval No.11YJC630107）.

摘　　要：This paper examines the cost of environmental regulation and the environmental total factor productivity （TFP） with directional distance function and the Malmquist-Luenberger （ALL） index respectively, using inputs and output data of 36 two-digit industries over the period 1998- 2010. It finds that Chinese industries incur a relatively high environmental regulatory cost and that China has paid a high price fulfilling its promise to emissions mitigation. A comparison between conventional and environmental TFP shows that the two indicators for all industries declined on average, but a hypothesis test reveals insignificant difference between the two. In addition, the rise in environmental TFP is mainly due to technological progress, which is consistent with findings of many researches; analysis demonstrates signs of absolute convergence of environmental TFP.

关 键 词：Directional distance function environmental regulatory costs environmentally sensitive productivity 

分 类 号：F424[经济管理—产业经济] X32[环境科学与工程—环境工程]