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      “Crisis” or “opportunity”? COVID-19 pandemic's impact on environmentally sound invention efficiency in China

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          Abstract

          Introduction

          The environmentally sound invention (ESI) is a “bridge” between environmental sound technologies (ESTs) and green productions. This study investigates the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on ESI efficiency using a multi-methods model in three stages.

          Methods

          The ESI efficiency is measured using the Slack-Based Measure (SBM) method in the first stage. By excluding the environmental effect of the pandemic on each province using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model's results in the second stage, this study compares the ESI efficiency change with or without the influence of the pandemic in the third stage.

          Results

          The results show that the pandemic can be a “crisis” in the short term, but an “opportunity” in the long term. First, the SBM efficiency results in the first stage show a decrease in the number of the average efficient provinces in which the pandemic is more severe during 2020-2021. Second, results of the spatial Tobit and SFA models provide evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts the ESI efficiency during 2020, this impact is decreasing in 2021, and this impact has a spatial diffusion effect.

          Discussion

          Based on these results, this study discussed the theoretical and political implications. This paper enriches the knowledge of ESTs research and development by proposing a three-stage approach with multi-methods to investigate the influence of the pandemic's impact on ESI efficiency.

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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Front Public Health
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Front Public Health
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Front. Public Health
                Title: Frontiers in Public Health
                Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
                ISSN (Electronic): 2296-2565
                Publication date (Electronic): 20 January 2023
                Publication date Collection: 2022
                Publication date PMC-release: 20 January 2023
                Volume: 10
                Electronic Location Identifier: 1102680
                Affiliations
                [1] 1School of Statistics and Mathematics, Shandong University of Finance and Economics , Jinan, China
                [2] 2School of Technology and Business, Shandong Management University , Jinan, China
                [3] 3School of Politics and Public Administration, Soochow University , Suzhou, China
                Author notes

                Edited by: Yu Gong, University of Southampton Management School, United Kingdom

                Reviewed by: Yuyan Wang, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, China; Changping Zhao, Changshu Institute of Technology, China

                *Correspondence: Xuan Wei ✉ weixuan@ 123456sdufe.edu.cn

                This article was submitted to Health Economics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Public Health

                Article
                DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1102680
                PMC ID: 9897282
                SO-VID: 2a1bb335-2c48-4bef-a0a1-269e7eae7102
                Copyright © Copyright © 2023 Wei, Liu and Lin.
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                Date received : 19 November 2022
                Date accepted : 31 December 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 4, Tables: 10, Equations: 5, References: 80, Pages: 14, Words: 10477
                Funding
                Funded by: National Natural Science Foundation of China, doi 10.13039/501100001809;
                This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 72102121) and the Ministry of Education of China's Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (grant number 21YJC630075).
                Categories
                Subject: Public Health
                Subject: Original Research

                Keywords: covid-19 pandemic,environmentally sound invention (esi),esi efficiency,environmental sound technologies (ests),slack-based measure (sbm),spatial tobit,stochastic frontier analysis (sfa)
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                Keywords: covid-19 pandemic, environmentally sound invention (esi), esi efficiency, environmental sound technologies (ests), slack-based measure (sbm), spatial tobit, stochastic frontier analysis (sfa)

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