Market regulation and environmental productivity changes in the electricity and gas sector of 13 observed EU countries

Corsatea, Teodora Diana; Giaccaria, Sergio

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2018.08.145

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“…First, we incorporate different types of environmental regulations into a unified framework. In the measurement of environmental regulation intensity, previous studies usually choose several indicators in an attempt to build a comprehensive index to reflect and measure the overall level of environmental regulation [1][2][3][4]; in some cases, scholars only used some of the tools of environmental regulation in terms of the category of index selection, command-control [2,5,6], market-incentive [7][8][9], voluntary-participation [10,11] and so forth. However, this approach is not appropriate.…”

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Environmental regulation, green innovation, and international competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises in China: From the perspective of heterogeneous regulatory tools

Sun

Dai

2021

PLoS ONE

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Based on combined data from the China Patent Database, China Industrial Enterprise Database, and China Customs Import and Export Database for the period 2004–2010, this study investigates the impact of heterogeneous environmental regulations on the export technological sophistication of manufacturing enterprises. Given deepening international market segmentation of production and the increasing proportion of intermediate trade, and compared with the traditional method based on exports, the export technological sophistication calculated here, based on value-added, is closer to the true level. Since there has been no in-depth comparative study on the relationship between heterogeneous environmental regulation and export technological sophistication, this study fills the gap. The results show that all three regulation types bear a U-shaped impact on export technological sophistication. Command-control regulation exhibits a restraining effect on mixed trade, eastern, and foreign-funded enterprises. Market-incentive regulation promotes processing and mixed trade enterprises as well as domestic and foreign-funded enterprises. Voluntary-participation regulation promotes all enterprises with different trade patterns and ownership. The mechanism analysis shows that command-control and market-participation environmental regulations affect export technological sophistication through the green invention and green utility innovation channels, while, additionally, market-incentive environmental regulation affects export technological sophistication through the green design innovation channel. Considering the environmental governance issues, the policy implications for enhancing the entire industrial chain and enterprises’ export competitiveness are clear. Due to the unclear functions and powers of competent departments and a rigid threshold, command-control regulation is not conducive to cleaner production technology and the promotion of enterprises’ export competitiveness; it should thus be discouraged. Although both market-incentive and voluntary-participation regulations have promoted cleaner production technology and enterprises’ competitiveness significantly, the environmental tax system requires continuous improvement. The government should continue to raise public involvement in environmental protection to enrich the channels and forms of environmental management.

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Environmental regulation, green innovation, and international competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises in China: From the perspective of heterogeneous regulatory tools

Sun

Dai

2021

PLoS ONE

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“…However, in the UMIC, there was a two-year delay in the effect of the policy to be able to observe significant effects on carbon dioxide emissions, starting with a 0.19% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from energy systems. Bulgaria and Romania belong to the UMIC category, which according to the documentation of the European Parliament [8] took advantage of the different deadlines granted by the European Union to fully liberalize their internal energy market, taking them more time than the HIC, who was already executing the measure progressively, presenting a higher environmental performance [36].…”

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“…The first one groups those studies that support the hypothesis of the environmental Kuznets curve [19,20,27]. In the second group, we find those investigations that consider the effect of a measure implemented to contribute to an improvement in environmental quality, such as the liberalization of the internal energy market [22,35,36].…”

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The Liberalization of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Evidence of Its Influence on Reducing Environmental Pollution

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From an empirical point of view, the liberalization of the internal energy market reduces carbon dioxide emissions, promoting a wider range of renewable energy sources. The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of the liberalization of the internal energy market on CO2 emissions, which was implemented in the European Union in 2011. The research data cover 27 countries of the European Union during the period 2004–2017 and was processed by estimating a two-way effects econometric model. The results suggest that the liberalization of the internal energy market is negatively related to CO2 emissions; the policy was effective in reducing CO2 emissions and, therefore, slowing down climate change. This result is significant at the level of the European Union, and in high-income countries since the year the policy was implemented, being different in the upper-middle-income countries, which begins to be effective after two years, which is due to the economic characteristics of the countries. The public policies to be implemented to reduce carbon dioxide emissions should focus on reducing the barriers imposed on foreign trade, which prevent efficient use of resources and providing financial and operating facilities to renewable energy providers in order to stimulate their production and consumption.

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“…However, to the best of our knowledge, there have been no studies analysing productivity changes in the European energy industry. Only its subsectors have been the subject of such analyses [13][14][15]. This is surprising, especially from a policy point of view, considering that the EU wants to take further steps towards an integrated energy market and a common energy policy.…”

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Analysing the Pattern of Productivity Change in the European Energy Industry

Borozan

Starčević

2021

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For an industry to succeed in a competitive market, it should continuously take care of not only its stakeholders but also its technical efficiency and productivity. In this paper, data envelopment analysis was combined with Malmquist productivity analysis to investigate the pattern of multifactor productivity changes in the European energy industry over the period from 2005–2016. The results showed that the whole industry was technically inefficient and had large potential for improvement. A slight average increase in productivity that was observed over the studied period proved to be sensitive to the financial and economic situation and equally sensitive to technological and efficiency advances. As for efficiency gains, they reflected the nature of the energy industry, implying that they were due to scale efficiencies rather than human resource improvements. Although technological innovation and the optimal scale of production increased productivity, the slow pace at which this occurred and the negative outlook highlighted by the observed trends call for more serious consideration of the future productivity deployment of the European energy industry, particularly in the context of its decarbonisation, diversification, and modernisation.

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Market regulation and environmental productivity changes in the electricity and gas sector of 13 observed EU countries

Cited by 21 publications

References 34 publications

Environmental regulation, green innovation, and international competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises in China: From the perspective of heterogeneous regulatory tools

Environmental regulation, green innovation, and international competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises in China: From the perspective of heterogeneous regulatory tools

The Liberalization of the Internal Energy Market in the European Union: Evidence of Its Influence on Reducing Environmental Pollution

Analysing the Pattern of Productivity Change in the European Energy Industry

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