环境治理降低中国工业全要素增长了吗?——基于修正方向性距离函数的研究

Does Environmental Management Reduce Chinese Industrial Total-factor Productivity: A Study Based on Modified Directional Distance Function

基于方向性距离函数的研究大多认为环境管制会导致中国工业全要素生产率增长水平下降,然而此类研究忽视了环境污染的产生过程以及环境污染与工业经济增长之间的内生性关系,并导致环境全要素生产率指数的测算出现偏差。因此本文尝试从环境污染与经济增长的内在关系出发来构建环境治理约束下的全要素生产率分析框架,研究表明,环境治理并没有降低中国工业的全要素生产率增长水平,较高的环境治理水平可以显著促进地区工业的全要素增长。

By using the directional distance function,most of the current research concludes that environmental management has decreased Chinese industrial total-factor productivity. However,the existing literatures don't take the relationship between industrial economic growth and the generation of pollutants,which may cause some errors to the measurement. Thus,this paper rebuilds the framework of the environmental total-factor productivity,and the conclusions suggest that environmental management doesn't reduce Chinese industrial total-factor productivity,and the high-level of environmental management could improve the performance of industrial development.