Human Capital, Trade Competitiveness and Environmental Efficiency Convergence Across Asia Pacific Countries.

IF 3.2 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Environmental & Resource Economics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1007/s10640-023-00758-6

Florence Appiah-Twum, Xingle Long

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This study mainly investigates 14 Asia Pacific economies' environmental efficiency. Departing from previous studies ignoring environmental technology heterogeneity, we evaluate environmental efficiency through metafrontier super epsilon based model (EBM). We compare environmental efficiency convergence across different regions via unit root test and truncated regressions. We analyze how trade competitiveness impact environmental efficiency. We also explore effect of green technology and human capital on environmental efficiency from the perspective of endogenous growth. Our findings indicate that stochastic and absolute β-convergence tendencies were confirmed. Human capital can enhance environmental efficiency convergence. Trade competitiveness showed a mixed impact on environmental efficiency convergence, confirming scale, composition and technical effects. It is better to enhance human capital, strengthening environmental regulations under international competition as well as relentlessly pursuing green industrialization across Asia Pacific countries.

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亚太国家人力资本、贸易竞争力与环境效率趋同

本研究主要考察了14个亚太经济体的环境效率。针对以往忽视环境技术异质性的研究，本文采用基于超前沿的超epsilon模型(EBM)评价环境效率。我们通过单位根检验和截断回归比较了不同地区的环境效率收敛性。我们分析了贸易竞争力如何影响环境效率。本文还从内生增长的角度探讨了绿色技术和人力资本对环境效率的影响。我们的研究结果表明，随机和绝对的β收敛趋势得到了证实。人力资本可以促进环境效率趋同。贸易竞争力对环境效率趋同、规模效应、构成效应和技术效应的影响是混合的。最好是加强人力资本，加强国际竞争环境法规，在亚太各国坚持不懈地推进绿色工业化。

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Environmental & Resource Economics Multiple-

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10.20

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3.40%

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100

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