Industrial policy, energy and environment efficiency: Evidence from Chinese firm-level data

Policy evaluation and efficiency: a systematic literature review

“…The fact that the concept of environmental performance involves different dimension results in a number of multidisciplinary studies that relate environmental issues with agricultural efficiency (Whittaker et al., 2017), marine economy (Ding et al., 2020), sustainable development (Czyźewski et al., 2020; Ma et al., 2020), or energy efficiency (Pan et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2020). In particular, the bond between the energy and the environmental studies perspective is confirmed by the fact that all the energy papers in this review deal with environmental thematic (for more details, see Subsection 3.2.3).…”

“…The rise of environmental concerns is also reflected in the energy efficiency literature. In particular, the six papers we observe in the systematic literature review analyzed the effect on energy efficiency of policies involving the use of renewable energy sources (Halkos et al., 2015), incentives for sustainability and emission reductions (Lin and Zhu, 2019; Baláź et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020), and energy conservation (Xin‐gang et al., 2020). The geographical distribution of these studies suggests that particularly Europe (Morfeldt and Silveira, 2014; Halkos et al., 2015; Baláź et al., 2020) and China (Lin and Zhu, 2019; Xin‐gang et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020) are the regions with most attention to environmental efficiency.…”

“…These numbers are surprisingly low considering that none of the investigated interventions in our review considers random assignments. The empirical fields where endogeneity is more discussed are education (Waldo, 2007; Schubert and Yang, 2016; Santín & Sicilia, 2018; Papadimitriou and Johnes, 2019; D'Inverno et al., 2021), local government and environment (Halkos and Tzeremes, 2011b; Broersma et al., 2013; Asatryan and De Witte, 2015; Cordero et al., 2017; Ma et al., 2020), and environment (Pan et al., 2019; Czyźewski et al., 2020; Ma et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020). Interestingly, endogeneity is regarded, in any field of applications, only from a policy evaluation perspective, that is, it is discussed in terms of correlation between a regressor and the error term.…”

“…This change of direction has probably been driven by the growing data availability, which is in turn driven by the rising attention for environmental concerns. With this respect, it is interesting to note that most studies were geographically located in Europe (Pan et al., 2019; Czyźewski et al., 2020) or China (Ke et al., 2015; Ding et al., 2020; Ma et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020).…”

Blind Spots of Energy Transition Policy – Case Study of Latvia

“…It is complex to evaluate energy transition policies using one approach -for example, the same description or characteristics by using a few methodologies, theories or equations [6]. Therefore, a significant aspect of the problem solution is to understand the historical development of the energy policies and support mechanism of the energy sector to develop common methodology, which would help to avoid unexpected problems -blind spots [7].…”