Environmental regulation and green productivity of the construction industry in China

There are few studies analysing whether different types of environmental regulation have differential impacts on the efficiency construction industry. Using 2012–2016 panel data from 30 provinces in China, green total factor productivity (GTFP) industry is measured with a global Malmquist–Luenberger index based epsilon measure model. Thereafter, tobit regression model proposed to explore relationship between three and GTFP The results show that (a) 2012 2016, Chinese grew slowly at an average annual rate 0.14%; (b) both one-phase lagged command-and-control current phase market-based had positive linear GTFP, while voluntary regulation, other hand, inverted U-shaped GTFP; (c) can be combined establish suitable system. findings this study provide guidance for sustainable development by combining actions regulation.