 Does financial inclusion improve energy efficiency?Yantuan Yu and Kai Tang Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023, vol. 186, issue PA Abstract: This paper extends the empirical debate on the effects of financial inclusion on energy efficiency. We employ a non-convex metafrontier data envelopment analysis approach to estimate energy efficiency, and examine the impacts of financial inclusion on energy efficiency using a dataset of China's 251 prefecture-level cities during 2011–2015. Our results document that financial inclusion significantly improved energy efficiency. Specifically, a unit increase in financial inclusion would lead to an increase in energy efficiency by approximately 6.5 %. To address the endogeneity, we introduce two instrumental variables into our baseline model. Estimates of two stage least squares also support our main findings. Moreover, we find that marketization is one of the primary channels for financial inclusion to improve energy efficiency. These findings are robust across estimation method, model specifications and alternative measures of both financial inclusion and energy efficiency. Policy implications are presented based on the empirical results. Keywords: Financial inclusion; Energy efficiency; Non-convex metafrontier; Data envelopment analysis; Tobit model (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:186:y:2023:i:pa:s004016252200631x DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122110 Access Statistics for this article Technological Forecasting and Social Change is currently edited by Fred Phillips More articles in Technological Forecasting and Social Change from Elsevier |
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