China's changing energy intensity trend: A decomposition analysis

Ma, Chunbo; Stern, David I.

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2007.05.005

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“…There seems to be general agreement in the relevant literature about the key role played by technological progress in explaining China's declining energy intensity, although the role played by structural change remains a controversial issue (Zhang, 2003;Fisher-Vanden et al, 2004;Liao et al, 2007 andMa andStern, 2008). However,…”

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“…Therefore, as has been argued by Fisher-Vanden et al (2004), sectorial changes can be important to explain the decline in energy intensity. However, most previous studies have found sectoral shift to be a relatively small contributor to the decline in China's energy intensity (Garbaccio et al, 1999;Liao et al, 2007, andMa andStern, 2008). 10…”

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“…Following Ma and Stern (2008), the actual changes in industrial structure were very different in the 1980s and the period following the 1980s. From 1980 to 1990, structural change occurred…”

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“…As can be seen in Tables 2 and 3, increases in the share of industry in GDP reduce coal energy intensity, although this effect is only significant in some of the specifications. Following Ma and Stern (2008), inter-fuel substitution (among coal, oil, natural gas, electricity and other fuels) is found to contribute little to the changes in the energy intensity. Since this factor does not seem to be relevant in explaining this effect, it is possible that structural changes inside the industry sector can offer the explanation.…”

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Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces

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The main objective of this paper is to investigate whether openness and investment ownership are key factors in explaining the diffusion of energy-saving technologies in China. Compared with previous studies, the novel aspect of this work is the use of a rich dataset at provincial level, which allows the high level of regional heterogeneity to be taken into consideration. The unbalanced regional growth has been translated into differences in the need for energy resources across the vast territory of China. A detailed analysis of these issues may provide new insights into the energy situation in this country. The analysis is also disaggregated by type of energy: coal, electricity and petroleum. We estimate the models by panel-corrected standard errors, developed by Beck and Katz (1995), over the period . Results obtained confirm the hypothesis that both foreign and non-state investments play a leading role in the decline of energy intensity across Chinese regions, whereas there is no evidence of a positive contribution of state investment. The findings also reveal differences in energy intensity across regions, thus confirming the importance of accounting for the regional dimension when analyzing energy consumption in China.

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“…The IDA applies sectoral production and electricity and the SDA requires data-intensive energy input-output analysis [4]. The advantages and constraints of each of these methods are discussed in depth by Hoekstra and Van den Bergh [23] and Ma and Stern [24]. Because of the data constraint concerning SDA, the IDA is generally perceived as the method of choice by a number of studies [25,26,27].…”

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South Africa’s electricity consumption: A sectoral decomposition analysis

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Energy Consumption and Economy Development: An Empirical Case Study forChina

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The researches on the relationship between energy consumption and economic development became increasingly popular after the first oil shock in the early 1970s. This article at first briefly summarizes the academic development in this area in both theoretical and empirical aspects and then the energy consumption–economic development nexus is investigated by utilizing China's actual data as a case study. The empirical estimations indicate that there exists a bilateral Granger causality between China's energy consumption and economic development, both in short and long terms. Besides, the inverted‐U‐shaped EKC relationship between energy consumption and per capita GDP is also verified. The important policy implication from these results is that China should pay more attention to keep the balance between the short‐ and long‐run effects when conducting environmental and energy policies. Although in the long run efforts should be paid to control the total amount of energy consumption, in the short and medium terms, more emphasis should be placed on energy efficiency improvement and the development of green and renewable energy industries.

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China's changing energy intensity trend: A decomposition analysis

Cited by 604 publications

References 22 publications

Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces

Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces

South Africa’s electricity consumption: A sectoral decomposition analysis

Energy Consumption and Economy Development: An Empirical Case Study forChina

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