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

Wei Feng (), Hang Yuan () and Yanyi Chen ()
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Wei Feng: Southeast University
Hang Yuan: Southeast University
Yanyi Chen: Southeast University

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2025, vol. 27, issue 7, No 36, 15975 pages

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Export product quality; GTFP; Home market size; Technological innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F18 O32 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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