Showing papers in "Structural Change and Economic Dynamics in 2021"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed panel spatial simultaneous equations models with a generalized spatial two-stage least squares (GS2SLS) method to explore the three-way linkages among economic growth, carbon emissions, and renewable energy consumption for European Union (EU) countries from 1995 to 2014.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the effect and mechanism of internet development on China's haze pollution on the basis of provincial panel data in China from 2006 to 2017, and the results indicated that there is an inverted “U” curve between internet development and haze pollution in China.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Markov chain model is employed to forecast primary energy consumption (PEC) structure and verify whether the carbon intensity target would be achieved under three scenarios with different economic growth rates, such as 6.1, 4.2, and 2.3%, respectively.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper used the Super-SBM-ML model to evaluate the influence of human capital structure on green total factor productivity (GTFP) spatially.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of tourism develop, renewable energy and real GDP on CO2 emissions for G20 economies during the period of 1995-2015, and concluded that tourism development can be driving force for CO 2 emissions reduction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the heterogeneous effects of industrialization on the environment in 37 African countries from 2000 to 2016 and used the quantile regression model for panel data, finding that industrialization is found to increase environmental degradation in the 10-30th quantiles, while in the 40-90th quantile, industrialization reduces environmental degradation.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a global Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index with the interval slacks-based measure to evaluate the provincial green total factor productivity (GTFP) in China from 2000 to 2018.

TL;DR: In this paper, an innovative panel quantile regression model with non-additive fixed effect has been developed to examine the impact of political stability, quality of governance and institutions, and financial development on the deployment of renewable energy production in 9 selected MENA countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between the introduction of Industry 4.0 automation systems, the organisation of the work process, and the implications for employment, skill composition, power relations, and workers' intervention authority.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the impact of environmental pollution on the crime rate and proposed a series of policy implications to reduce criminal activities in China from the perspective of Environmental pollution.

TL;DR: In this article, the main building blocks, achievements and challenges of an evolutionary interpretation of the relation between mechanisms of coordination and drivers of change in modern economies, seen as complex evolving systems are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal relationship between inward FDI and economic complexity using a panel VAR approach and Impulse Response Functions was found to be very small and occurs only in countries with above-average levels of GDP per capita, tertiary education, tertiarization or financial development.

TL;DR: This paper developed a unified theoretical framework in which to place the economic analysis of social institutions and developed a stronger relationship between classical and post-Keynesian economics that provides the conditions for developing a unified theory for analyzing social institutions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use trade data of 116 countries to quantify the stages of productive sophistication and reveal the critical phase that countries encounter at intermediate levels of economic sophistication, revealing that only five countries (i.e. Ireland, Israel, Hungary, Singapore, and South Korea) overcame the gravitation towards simple products and fully transformed their economies towards complex products between 1970 and 2010.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the effects of national environmental information disclosure program on regional industrial structure upgradation during 2003 and 2017, and they employed the difference-in-differences (DID) method to conduct an empirical analysis.

TL;DR: Based on the perspective of new structural economics, the authors reviewed each stage of China's state-owned enterprise reform, summarized their main features, and argued that the root of SBE's low efficiency and soft budget constraints is their strategic and social policy burdens.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the long-term relationship between the extreme events and carbon emissions since 1960, and short-term drivers of the changes in carbon emissions before and after the 2008 financial crisis.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed data on industrial robots in European manufacturing sectors, focusing on the applications and characteristics of industrial robots, their distribution over countries and sectors and the main factors that are correlated with robot adoption such as wage levels and robot prices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the employment impact of offshoring in five European countries (Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom), distinguishing between different types of inputs/tasks offshored, different type of off-shoring industries and types of professional groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit the provincial variability of COVID-19 cases registered in Italy to select the territorial predictors of the pandemic, and apply machine learning to isolate, among 77 potential predictors, those that minimize the out-of-sample prediction error.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the impact of polycentric agglomeration on green total factor productivity, its action path, and the synergistic effect of market integration by employing instrumental variable estimation and a mediating effect model.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper established a trade model at the firm-level to analyze the impacts of export on firms' energy efficiency in production and proposed a novel mechanism of innovation investment to explain why export affects firms' environmental performance.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the effect of tax incentives for green development on mining company total factor productivity (TFP) and its mechanism of influence, and provided Chinese firm-level evidence for the Porter hypothesis.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the possible reasons behind the coordination between SO2 pollution control and rapid economic growth by using satellite observations and economic model simulations, and found that industrial upgrades, foreign direct investment and technological progress are the principal contributors to the significant reductions of SO2 concentrations.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of productivity and country size on the extent of trade structure diversification were analyzed using a testable version of the Ricardian model, and it was shown that relative export variety is an outcome of two forces: a relative productivity change (technological progress) and a relative country size change (labour force growth).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether differences in institutional quality and social capital are correlated with the efficacy of lockdown measures, taking the Italian provinces as a case study, using a quantitative analysis employing F-GLS estimators.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of inward foreign direct investments (FDIs) on the industrialization process in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries was examined under consideration of the impact on information and communication technology (ICT) penetration.

TL;DR: In this article, a metric based on granular greenfield FDI data is developed that allows capturing the functional specialisation of countries in global value chains at the industry level, which can be used to test and confirm the smile curve hypothesis by showing that countries specialised in the production stage of the value chains tend to generate less value added per unit of output produced than those specialised as headquarter economies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of market distortions in determining resource reallocations and aggregate productivity in Chinese manufacturing industry and found that the contribution of firm innovation to aggregate productivity growth is small.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an innovative framework that identifies the structural characteristics and the evolution process of real estate industry in China from 2002 to 2017 through a series of modified network analysis methods.