剖析环境效率：技术采用和使用的作用

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106776

Filippo Belloc , Edilio Valentini

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企业如何才能最好地减少对环境的影响？是否应该改变技术？还是利用现有技术做得更好？本文指出，不能一刀切。我们分析了受欧盟排放交易体系监管的污染生产工厂（即装置）样本。我们采用混合模型估算法，将环境效率分为技术采用部分（使用何种技术）和技术使用部分（如何使用技术）。安装层面的分析表明，采用前沿技术的安装比例约为 21%。我们还发现，通过提高技术采用率和技术使用率，设备的平均环境效率收益分别为 75% 和 80%。对母公司资产负债表数据的分析表明，规模较大、上市、拥有多个装置和国际化的公司会采用更好的环保技术，而老公司和无形资产强度较高的公司则更常采用更好的技术。

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Dissecting environmental efficiency: The role of technology adoption and usage

How could firms best reduce their environmental impact? Should they change technology? Or could they do better with what they already have? This paper shows that one size does not fit all. We analyse a sample of polluting production plants (i.e. installations) regulated under the EU Emission Trading System. We employ a mixture model estimation to dissect environmental efficiency into a technology adoption component (

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type of technology is used) and a technology usage component (

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a technology is used). Our installation-level analysis shows that the share of installations adopting frontier technologies is about 21%. We also find that the average environmental efficiency gains that installations could reach by improving technology adoption and technology usage are 75% and 80% respectively. The analysis of balance-sheet data on parent companies reveals that better environmental technologies are adopted by larger, listed, multi-installation and international companies, while older firms and firms with higher intangible assets intensity more commonly show improved technology usage.

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来源期刊

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.