Analysis of Convergence of Provincial Environmental Efficiency of China and Dynamic Processes

Abstract

Abstract: In view of the limitations of the traditional convergence models, the convergence characteristics of environmental efficiency in 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2014 are analyzed based on the PS model. The results show that there is no convergence in China's environmental efficiency, but there are four types of convergence and one divergence type. The relative path of type A and type B tends to rise, and its intervening environmental efficiency is higher than that of other types. The average path of type C, type D and type E is below 1, and the province's environmental efficiency is lower than the national average, and this part of the inter-provincial quantity occupies 2/3 of the national average. These are core classes with reducing the environmental efficiency. During the study, provincial environmental efficiency shows a “polarization” or “multipolar differentiation” trend by nuclear density model. Further, economic development level and industrial structure are the main influencing factors for club.

Key words: environmental efficiency, SBM-super model, PS convergence model, Kernel density estimation, influencing factors

Piao Shengren. Analysis of Convergence of Provincial Environmental Efficiency of China and Dynamic Processes[J]. Management Review, 2020, 32(8): 52-62,105.

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