IMPACTS AND MECHANISM OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENSES ON ECO-EFFICIENCIES OF FINE CHEMICALS ENTITIES
Environmental expenses of fine chemical entities is a general guarantee to environmental pollution,and also a vital approach to entities'green sustainability.Eco-efficiency is an important index for evaluating green development.Study of impacts and mechanism of environmental expenses on eco-efficiency of fine chemical entities is helpful to drive economic growth and reduce pollution,offering supports to entities'quality development.This paper uses SBM-GML model to estimate 2011 to 2021 eco-efficiencies of 55 fine chemical entities in Shangyu industrial park,and analyzes the heterogeneity of environmental expenses on eco-efficiency from timescale,property and sub-industries.A threshold model is established to discuss the mechanism of environmental expenses on eco-efficiency.Fine chemical entities in the park have increased their eco-efficiency by 55.5%from 2011 to 2021,positively driven by environmental expenses,more outstandingly among internal capital and medicine entities during the"12th 5-Year-Plan".Entities have raised their resources utilization efficiency,further promoting the positive pushing of environmental expenses on eco-efficiency.Environmental expenses exert little impacts on eco-efficiency when green technology is above the threshold value,and will largely decrease impacts when environmental expense is 48.8%more than the total cost.This paper presents suggestions for fine chemical entities to improve eco-efficiency and provides supports to make environmental plannings.
fine chemicalsenvironmental expenseeco-efficiencythreshold effect