講座時間：2019年1月11號14:00

講座地點：0411室

講座題目：The Environmental Performance of the Chinese Manufacturing Sector: An Inputoriented Approach 中國制造業的環境友好型表現：基于投入要素距離函數的測度

講座梗概：In the past several years, the Chinese government has been pursuing “green” economic growth. An important issue is to reduce the production of undesirable outputs (e.g., pollution) which are unavoidable during the production process. The environmental performance index (EPI) introduced by F?re, Grosskopf and Hernandez-Sancho (2004) is an appropriate tool to study this issue. There are two restrictions in current empirical studies that adopt EPI: (i) Only the “min-max” reference vectors are used. (ii) The empirical production technology in a panel data set is limited to the grand frontier constructed from all data.

This paper modifies the existing formula to address the above two issues. It is shown that our input-oriented EPI is well-defined for many choices of reference vectors and it allows for different empirical production frontiers over time. The new formula is adopted to study the environmental performance of the Chinese manufacturing sector from 2003 to 2014. Our empirical results show that there has been a continuous improvement of environmental performance in the Chinese manufacturing sector over the investigated period. We also find evidence to support the pollutant haven hypothesis that foreign direct investment reduces the environmental performance of Chinese manufacturing sector. In conclusion, this paper proposes an alternative approach to the computation of environmental performance. This new formulation solves some of the problems faced by the existing one.

主講人介紹:

香港浸會大學經濟學博士生，CDA數據分析高級講師，PPV課程金牌講師，香港UG科研基金全額資助研究員，香港經濟學學會會員，國際藥物經濟學學會會員.

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