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The impact of green total factor productivity on export product quality: evidence from china

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  • Wei Feng

    (Southeast University)

  • Hang Yuan

    (Southeast University)

  • Yanyi Chen

    (Southeast University)

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Does green total factor productivity (GTFP) have an effect on the quality of exported Chinese manufacturing products? In this study, we measure GTFP in Chinese industry from 2005 to 2015 using a model called the slack-based measure–Global Malmquist–Luenberger model. Then, we calculate export quality and empirically examine the relationship and mechanism between them. We find that Chinese GTFP and export quality have both increased. GTFP can effectively drive export product quality, and this relationship is mainly embodied in manufacturing, which is capital-intensive. Additionally, the impact of GTFP on the export product quality is driven primarily through the channels of technological progress and the size of the domestic market. Moreover, only capital investment can play a mutually positive effect with GTFP in joint effects on export quality. Our findings not only fill a gap in existing research, but also shed light on how China can stimulate environmentally sustainable economic development of exports from the perspective of GTFP.

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  • Wei Feng & Hang Yuan & Yanyi Chen, 2025. "The impact of green total factor productivity on export product quality: evidence from china," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 27(7), pages 15951-15975, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:7:d:10.1007_s10668-024-04591-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-024-04591-9
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    Keywords

    Export product quality; GTFP; Home market size; Technological innovation;
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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