{"title":"Human Capital, Trade Competitiveness and Environmental Efficiency Convergence Across Asia Pacific Countries.","authors":"Florence Appiah-Twum, Xingle Long","doi":"10.1007/s10640-023-00758-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00758-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"85 1","pages":"109-132"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846664/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9690555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adjusting and Calibrating Elicited Values Based on Follow-up Certainty Questions: A Meta-analysis","authors":"J. Penn, Wuyang Hu","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00742-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00742-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"919-946"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46949670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Englezos, X. Kartala, P. Koundouri, M. Tsionas, A. Alamanos
{"title":"A Novel HydroEconomic - Econometric Approach for Integrated Transboundary Water Management Under Uncertainty","authors":"N. Englezos, X. Kartala, P. Koundouri, M. Tsionas, A. Alamanos","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00744-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00744-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"975-1030"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52283177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diverging Beliefs on Climate Change and Climate Policy: The Role of Political Orientation","authors":"Leonard Knollenborg, Stephan Sommer","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00747-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00747-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"1031-1049"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46357901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oliver Ruhnau, Anselm Eicke, Raffaele Sgarlato, T. Tröndle, Lion Hirth
{"title":"Cost-Potential Curves of Onshore Wind Energy: the Role of Disamenity Costs","authors":"Oliver Ruhnau, Anselm Eicke, Raffaele Sgarlato, T. Tröndle, Lion Hirth","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00746-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00746-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45687860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Transverse Eco-compensation Mechanism Correct Resource Misallocation in Watershed Environmental Governance? A Cost-benefit Analysis of the Pilot Project of Xin’an River in China","authors":"Hongzhen Zhang, Ling‐Yun He, Zhongxiang Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00743-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00743-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"947-973"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41326361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keith Brouhle, B. Graham, Donna Ramirez Harrington
{"title":"Patents and P2: Innovation and Technology Adoption for Environmental Improvements","authors":"Keith Brouhle, B. Graham, Donna Ramirez Harrington","doi":"10.1007/s10640-022-00729-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00729-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48299,"journal":{"name":"Environmental & Resource Economics","volume":"84 1","pages":"439-474"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48227759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}