Do marginal abatement costs matter for improving air quality? Evidence from China's major cities
| Autor: | D.J. Ji, F. Wu, Peng Zhou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pollution
China Environmental Engineering Natural resource economics media_common.quotation_subject Shadow price 0208 environmental biotechnology 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Air Pollution Cities Waste Management and Disposal Air quality index 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Government Air Pollutants General Medicine Particulates 020801 environmental engineering Costs and Cost Analysis Environmental science Particulate Matter Marginal abatement cost Panel data Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Journal of environmental management. 286 |
| ISSN: | 1095-8630 |
| Popis: | This paper performs a two-stage analysis to investigate the trade-off between economic growth and pollution abatement. We first estimate the marginal abatement costs (MACs) of CO2, SO2, NOx, and particulate matter (PM) for 30 major Chinese cities from 2006 to 2015 via the shadow price approach under the directional distance function framework. The results show that the optimal directional vector is (11, −1, −1, −1, −1), which may indicate that increasing economic output is much more important than reducing the above undesirable outputs in these cities. Then, having examined the relationship between MACs and air quality by panel regression and dose-response analyses, we found ranges of positive and statistically significant treatment effects for the MACs of SO2 and PM on their respective concentrations. The overall results suggest that government officials in these cities may give precedence to economic growth over environmental protection. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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