The effects of efficiency and TFP growth on pollution in Europe: a multistage spatial analysis

Adetutu, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0402-7847, Glass, AJ, Kenjegalieva, K and Sickles, RC, 2015. The effects of efficiency and TFP growth on pollution in Europe: a multistage spatial analysis. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 43 (3), pp. 307-326. ISSN 0895-562X

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Abstract

It is common in efficiency studies which analyse the environment for pollution to form part of the production technology. Pollution therefore affects efficiency and the TFP growth decomposition. As an alternative approach we draw on theoretical studies from the environmental economics literature, which demonstrate that TFP affects environmental quality. Along these lines we adopt a two-stage empirical methodology. Firstly, we obtain two estimates of productive performance (efficiency and TFP growth) using a stochastic production frontier framework in Stage 1 for European countries (1995-2008), from which we omit emissions. Secondly, in Stage 2 these measures of productive performance are used as regressors in spatial models of per capita nitrogen and sulphur emissions for European countries. From our preferred Stage 2 spatial models we find that a country's TFP growth must fall to reduce its per capita nitrogen and sulphur emissions. This is likely to be because nitrogen and sulphur emissions in the EU have been tightly regulated for a long period of time via air quality standards and consequently, substantial reductions in emissions from cleaner and more productive technology were achieved some time ago.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Productivity Analysis
Creators:	Adetutu, M., Glass, A.J., Kenjegalieva, K. and Sickles, R.C.
Date:	June 2015
Volume:	43
Number:	3
ISSN:	0895-562X
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s11123-014-0426-7 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	11 Jan 2016 11:47
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:58
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26741

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