Productivity growth and environmental regulations - accounting for undesirable outputs: Analysis of China's thirty provincial regions using the Malmquist-Luenberger index

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2369-2379

  Zhang, Chunhong ^a   Liu, Haiying ^a,b   Bressers, Hans Th A ^c   Buchanan, Karen S ^c  

^a Centre for Quantitative Economics Research of Jilin University   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Directional distance function; Environmental regulations; Malmquist Luenberger (ML) productivity index; Total factor productivity (TFP); Uncontrollable variables; Undesirable outputs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PROVINCIALISM; REGULATORY APPROACH; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

CHINA;

EID: 80053338502     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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