Inflection Point of Green Total Factor Productivity by Low-Carbon Regulation from Chinese Economics Recovery

The sustainable growth path of emerging economies has transformed from the traditional extensive model to high-quality development. Due to the impulse force of low-carbon regulation, the measurement of input–output efficiency changed into green total factor productivity (GTFP) which considers enviro...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8030195a704b42f896ca123a62b789452021-11-25T19:00:37ZInflection Point of Green Total Factor Productivity by Low-Carbon Regulation from Chinese Economics Recovery10.3390/su1322123822071-1050https://doaj.org/article/8030195a704b42f896ca123a62b789452021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/22/12382https://doaj.org/toc/2071-1050The sustainable growth path of emerging economies has transformed from the traditional extensive model to high-quality development. Due to the impulse force of low-carbon regulation, the measurement of input–output efficiency changed into green total factor productivity (GTFP) which considers environmental factors. Past research on GTFP focused on enterprise investments to promote green innovation for their resource allocation efficiency, but green investments are often limited from marketization that is interactively influenced by low-carbon regulation. Therefore, handing green investment to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions for green economics recovery is a big challenge. Then these hypotheses are tested by the main study of 170 cities in China. Results suggested that GTFP has an inverted S-shaped curve with three inflection points and four development stages under the influence of low-carbon regulation. It means that improving green productivity is costly toward making green investments without the driving of green innovation. However, the inflection point of the growth curve—when enterprise investment activities ignore the interaction between low-carbon regulation and green investment policy—will come slowly to a period of high-quality development. Moderating results suggested that the green productivity would be weakened and the inflection point would be delayed by the low-carbon marketization index if the low-carbon regulation intensity was neglected. Therefore, this research advanced an effectively co-ordinate growth curve to search for the inflection point of green economics recovery.Youqiang DingYufeng HuMDPI AGarticlelow-carbon regulation intensitylow-carbon marketization indexgreen innovationgreen investmentgreen total factor productivityEnvironmental effects of industries and plantsTD194-195Renewable energy sourcesTJ807-830Environmental sciencesGE1-350ENSustainability, Vol 13, Iss 12382, p 12382 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic low-carbon regulation intensity
low-carbon marketization index
green innovation
green investment
green total factor productivity
Environmental effects of industries and plants
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
TJ807-830
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
spellingShingle low-carbon regulation intensity
low-carbon marketization index
green innovation
green investment
green total factor productivity
Environmental effects of industries and plants
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
TJ807-830
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Youqiang Ding
Yufeng Hu
Inflection Point of Green Total Factor Productivity by Low-Carbon Regulation from Chinese Economics Recovery
description The sustainable growth path of emerging economies has transformed from the traditional extensive model to high-quality development. Due to the impulse force of low-carbon regulation, the measurement of input–output efficiency changed into green total factor productivity (GTFP) which considers environmental factors. Past research on GTFP focused on enterprise investments to promote green innovation for their resource allocation efficiency, but green investments are often limited from marketization that is interactively influenced by low-carbon regulation. Therefore, handing green investment to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions for green economics recovery is a big challenge. Then these hypotheses are tested by the main study of 170 cities in China. Results suggested that GTFP has an inverted S-shaped curve with three inflection points and four development stages under the influence of low-carbon regulation. It means that improving green productivity is costly toward making green investments without the driving of green innovation. However, the inflection point of the growth curve—when enterprise investment activities ignore the interaction between low-carbon regulation and green investment policy—will come slowly to a period of high-quality development. Moderating results suggested that the green productivity would be weakened and the inflection point would be delayed by the low-carbon marketization index if the low-carbon regulation intensity was neglected. Therefore, this research advanced an effectively co-ordinate growth curve to search for the inflection point of green economics recovery.
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author Youqiang Ding
Yufeng Hu
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Yufeng Hu
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title Inflection Point of Green Total Factor Productivity by Low-Carbon Regulation from Chinese Economics Recovery
title_short Inflection Point of Green Total Factor Productivity by Low-Carbon Regulation from Chinese Economics Recovery
title_full Inflection Point of Green Total Factor Productivity by Low-Carbon Regulation from Chinese Economics Recovery
title_fullStr Inflection Point of Green Total Factor Productivity by Low-Carbon Regulation from Chinese Economics Recovery
title_full_unstemmed Inflection Point of Green Total Factor Productivity by Low-Carbon Regulation from Chinese Economics Recovery
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