Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China

This book discusses energy use and its environmental footprint in China, as well as issues concerning the transitional green growth of its economy, a subject of great importance in light of China's size and its impressive record of economic growth. The book includes expert overviews and empirical studies prepared by internationally recognized experts in the field. The empirical techniques utilized by the contributors include econometrics, mathematical programming, and index numbers. The book will provide readers a deeper understanding of the energy and environmental issues China now faces during its transitional growth period, and of the strategies available for resolving these issues.
The 2016 Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference, held in Nankai University, Tianjin China from July 7-10, was organized by Nankai University's College of Economic and Social Development (CESD) in collaboration with the School of Economics Nankai University and Collaborative Innovation Center for China Economy. The primary objective of the event was to highlight the latest developments in efficiency and productivity research.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Editors' Introduction.- Part I: Expert Overviews.- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA.- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics.- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables.- Part II: Studies in Energy and Environment.- Chapter 5: Evaluating the Performance of New Energy: Evidence from the OECD and Implications for China.- Chapter 6: Revisiting Reasons for Ten Years of Power Shortages in China.- Chapter 7: Estimating the Cost of Carbon Abatement for China.- Chapter 8: Energy and Emission Efficiency Evaluation and Emission Abatement Cost Estimation of China's Major Industry Sectors.- Chapter 9: Allocation Mode and Efficiency of China's Carbon and Sulphur Emissions.- Chapter 10: Context-dependent Total-factor Energy Efficiency in Chinese Regions.- Chapter 11: "Guanxi" Investment, Corruption and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Chinese Private Enterprises.- Chapter 12: Environmental Regulation, Firm Heterogeneity and External Investment Bias: An Empirical Study of Listed Industrial Companies in China.- Chapter 13: Was Economic Growth in China Environmentally Friendly?.- Part III: Studies in Transitional Green Growth.- Chapter 14: Origins of FDI and Sustainable Development: Evidence from China.- Chapter 15: Making 'Dirty Money' Out of Exports: Estimating Value Added and Pollution Exports in China.- Chapter 16: Environmental Regulation, Technology Choice and Economic Growth: Evidence from China.- Chapter 17: Factor Price Distortion, Technological Innovation Pattern and Biased Technical Progress in China's Industry.- Chapter 18: To What Extent Can Resource Reallocation Explain China's Aggregate TFP Growth? Accounting for Input Misallocation across Industries.- Chapter 19: Structural Transformation and Allocation Efficiency in China and India.

About the author

Ruizhi Pang (PhD in Economics, 2002, Nankai University; Professor of Institute of Industrial Economics at Nankai University). Dr. Pang’s fields of research are Industrial Organization, Performance Evaluation and Industrial Development. In the past 10 years, she has published more than 40 academic papers and 5 monographs, some influential papers has been reprinted by Xinhua Digest (TOP 1 journal in social science in China). Dr. Pang has chaired 7 research projects from Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education Fund etc. She has also finished more than 20 research reports which sponsored by national government agencies and provincial government institutions. She also serves as anonymous reviewer of well-known academic journals, such as Empirical Economics, Economic Research etc.

Dr. Xuejie Bai, professor in economics at Nankai University, is the vice dean of College of Economic and Social Development at Nankai University, and a member ofChina Society of Industrial Economics. 

Dr Bai Xuejie has engaged in the teaching and research of industrial economics for more than 20 years, whose fields of research are industrial development and industrial policy, productivity and efficiency, and Japanese economy and Japanese industrial development. In recent years, she has published 5 monographs and several influential papers in industrial economics and industrial development. She has also presided more than 20 research projects in the areas of industrial planning, regional industry analysis, and industrial development strategy, which were sponsored by government agencies at central level and provincial levels.

Knox Lovell is Honorary Professor with the Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and he has co-authored several books, includingProduction Frontiers (with Färe&Grosskopf), Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Kumbhakar), and Productivity Accounting (with Grifell-Tatje), all for Cambridge University Press. He also hosts The Jazz Show on radio station 4zzz, 102.1 Fm, in Brisbane, Australia.

Summary

This book discusses energy use and its environmental footprint in China, as well as issues concerning the transitional green growth of its economy, a subject of great importance in light of China’s size and its impressive record of economic growth. The book includes expert overviews and empirical studies prepared by internationally recognized experts in the field. The empirical techniques utilized by the contributors include econometrics, mathematical programming, and index numbers. The book will provide readers a deeper understanding of the energy and environmental issues China now faces during its transitional growth period, and of the strategies available for resolving these issues. 

The 2016 Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference, held in Nankai University, Tianjin China from July 7-10, was organized by Nankai University’s College of Economic and Social Development (CESD) in collaboration with the School of Economics Nankai University and Collaborative Innovation Center for China Economy. The primary objective of the event was to highlight the latest developments in efficiency and productivity research.

Product details

• Assisted by: Xueji Bai (Editor), Xuejie Bai (Editor), Knox Lovell (Editor), Ruizhi Pang (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9789811079184
• ISBN: 978-981-10-7918-4
• No. of pages: 323
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 504 g
• Illustrations: VI, 323 p. 34 illus., 23 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; C, Economics, Economics and Finance, economic growth, Management science, Quantitative Economics, Economy-wide Country Studies, Asia—Economic conditions, Asian Economics, Econometrics & economic statistics, Econometrics