| Title |
Environmental productivity in the European Union: A global Luenberger-metafrontier approach |
| ID_Doc |
32455 |
| Authors |
Beltrán-Esteve, M; Giménez, V; Picazo-Tadeo, AJ |
| Title |
Environmental productivity in the European Union: A global Luenberger-metafrontier approach |
| Year |
2019 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.182 |
| Abstract |
This paper studies environmental productivity in the European Union-28 (EU-28) by extending the methodology proposed by Oh (2010) to an additive Luenberger-metafrontier framework. The main advantage of this approach is that it allows the analyst to account for cross-country heterogeneity. Using data on GDP, environmental pressures and inputs, the change in environmental productivity and its determinants between the years 2001 and 2016 is assessed in several scenarios; heterogeneity is accounted for by differentiating between the members of the former European Union-15 (EU-15) and the new members that joined the EU-28 from the 2000s onwards. Our results show an improvement in environmental productivity over the period, fuelled by both local and global innovation effects, with some EU-15 members advancing the global environmental technology. Conversely, efficiency change has almost always been negative, pointing to a worrying failure to catch up to the best environmental technologies. Accordingly, policy measures aimed at boosting the use of green technologies are urgently needed in the EU-28. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Author Keywords |
Catching-up; Environmental productivity; European Union; Innovation; Luenberger indicators; Metafrontier |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000484994700016 |
| WoS Category |
Environmental Sciences |
| Research Area |
Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
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