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Environment-biased technological progress and industrial land-use efficiency in China’s new normal

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The slow growth of the Chinese economy has led to a reduced number of environmental regulations. This study aims to establish whether China’s “new normal” economy can stimulate environment-biased technological progress to improve industrial land-use efficiency. First, we set up a two-sector theoretical model where in the new normal is treated as an exogenous variable to analyze the combined effects of technological progress, industrial land-use efficiency, and environmental regulations. Then, we establish a multi-index and multi-indicator constitutive equation, in which environment-biased technological progress is taken as an intermediate variable. The results show that the effects of weak environmental regulations on environment-biased technological progress are not significant and that China’s new normal economy can stimulate the progress of clean technology, thereby improving industrial land-use efficiency. Finally, foreign direct investment restricts the improvement of industrial land-use efficiency.

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  1. Studies examining the effects of urbanization on the change in land use include Baskent and Kadiogullari (2007), Serneels and Lambin (2001), and Serra et al. (2008).

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Major Projects in Philosophy and Social Science Research, Ministry of Education of The People’s Republic of China (Grant No. 14JZD031); The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71171001, 71573045, and 71471001); the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2015M570613); and The Natural Science Foundation of Shandong, China (Grant No. ZR2015PG003).

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  1. Research Center of Statistics for Management, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, 233030, China

    Malin Song

  2. School of Economics, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China

    Shuhong Wang

  3. National Innovative Institute for Public Management and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Kaiya Wu

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Song, M., Wang, S. & Wu, K. Environment-biased technological progress and industrial land-use efficiency in China’s new normal. Ann Oper Res 268, 425–440 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-016-2307-0

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