Abstract
Transportation infrastructure promotes the regional flow of production. The construction and use of transportation infrastructure have a crucial effect on climate change, the sustainable development of the economy, and Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP). Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2017, this study empirically analyses the spatial spillover effect of transportation infrastructure on the GTFP using the Malmquist–Luenberger (ML) index and the dynamic spatial Durbin model. We found that transportation infrastructure has direct and spatial spillover effects on the growth of GTFP; highway density and railway density have significant positive spatial spillover effects, and especially-obvious immediate and lagging spatial spillover effects in the short-term. We also note that the passenger density and freight density of transportation infrastructure account for a relatively small contribution to the regional GTFP. Considering environmental pollution, energy consumption, and the enriching of the traffic infrastructure index system, we used the dynamic spatial Durbin model to study the spatial spillover effects of transportation infrastructure on GTFP.
Highlights
As a kind of advanced social capital, transportation infrastructure is a necessary condition for the rapid development of a regional economy
The green productivity index (GML) is decomposed into green technological progress (GTC) and green technological efficiency changes (GEC), while green technological efficiency changes (GEC) can be decomposed into green pure technological efficiency changes (GPEC) and green scale efficiency changes (GSEC). The results of this decomposition are shown in Table 1: it shows that, after considering the resource input, undesirable output and slack variables, the resource consumption and environmental pollution have significantly reduced China’s economic growth performance; the growth of green total factor productivity in China is slower than the gross domestic product (GDP) growth
Regarding the studies of transportation infrastructure and the spatial spillover effect, the existing literature mainly focused on the related issues at the development of economics, or from the total factor productivity perspective
Summary
As a kind of advanced social capital, transportation infrastructure is a necessary condition for the rapid development of a regional economy. Green Total Factor Productivity, called green technology innovation [10], means the incorporation of resource consumption and environmental pollution as natural inputs and undesired outputs into the traditional Total Factor Productivity measurement system, in order to measure economic development trends under green and sustainable conditions. The green productivity index (GML) is decomposed into green technological progress (GTC) and green technological efficiency changes (GEC), while green technological efficiency changes (GEC) can be decomposed into green pure technological efficiency changes (GPEC) and green scale efficiency changes (GSEC) The results of this decomposition are shown in Table 1: it shows that, after considering the resource input, undesirable output and slack variables, the resource consumption and environmental pollution have significantly reduced China’s economic growth performance; the growth of green total factor productivity in China is slower than the GDP growth (during the same period, the growth rate of China’s GDP is 13.16%). Reasonable environmental policy regulations can promote enterprise technological progress and technology to innovate to improve GTFP [10]; the income from innovation can offset or even exceed the cost of pollution control, realize innovation compensation, and strengthen the possibility of ‘win-win’ pollution control and economic growth [24]; this conclusion verifies the ‘Porter Hypothesis’ to a certain extent
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