Cooperation and competition among urban agglomerations in environmental efficiency measurement:A cross-efficiency approach

2022-07-16 11:36XiaoxingLiangandZhixiangZhou
中国科学技术大学学报 2022年4期

Xiaoxing Liang ,and Zhixiang Zhou

1School of Public Affairs,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China;

2School of Economics,Hefei University of Technology,Hefei 230009,China

Graphical abstract

Environmental efficiency results for cities within three Chinese urban agglomerations.

Public summary

■ This paper analyzes the regional environmental efficiency by using the data of China’s urban agglomerations.

■ This paper considers the cooperation and competition relationship among cities in environmental efficiency measurement.

■ A cross efficiency model is constructed based on the cooperation and competition relationship with considering the performance of undesirable output.