Regional environmental performance and governance quality: a nonparametric analysis

George Halkos, Aksel Sundström and Nickolaos Tzeremes

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2015, vol. 17, issue 4, 644 pages

Abstract: This paper applies nonparametric estimators to examine the effect of regional quality of government on the environmental performance in the NUTS 1 regions in France, Germany, and the UK. A novel measure on governance is used, gauging the partiality, corruption and effectiveness of government services in each region. By utilizing regional-level measures of three pollutants (CO 2 , CH 4 and N 2 O), the effect of governance on environmental efficiency is analyzed. The empirical analysis suggests that there is a nonlinear relationship between regions’ governance quality levels and their environmental performance. It appears that the effect of regional quality of governance is positive up to a certain level, then turning slightly negative. This suggests that higher governance quality will not always result in increased environmental efficiency. Copyright Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies and Springer Japan 2015

Keywords: Quality of governance; Environmental performance; Regions; Nonparametric analysis; C14; Q58; R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10018-015-0106-5

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