Environmental productivity in the European Union : a global Luenberger-metafrontier approach
Giménez, Víctor (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Empresa)
Beltrán-Esteve, Mercedes (Universitat de València)
Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J. (Universitat de València)

Date:	2019
Description:	10 pàg.
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 themembers 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.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Catching-up ; Environmental productivity ; European Union ; Innovation ; Luenberger indicators ; Metafrontier ; Technical change
Published in:	Science of the total environment, Vol. 692 (2019) , p. 136-146, ISSN 1879-1026

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.182

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