Province-level convergence of China’s carbon dioxide emissions

Xueting Zhao (), James Burnett and Donald J. Lacombe

Applied Energy, 2015, vol. 150, issue C, 286-295

Abstract: This study offers a unique contribution to the literature by investigating the convergence of province-level carbon dioxide emission intensities among a panel of 30 provinces in China over the period 1990–2010. We use a novel, spatial dynamic panel data model to evaluate an empirically testable hypothesis of convergence among provinces. Our results suggest that: (1) CO2 emission intensities are converging across provinces in China; (2) the rate of convergence is higher with the dynamic panel data model than the cross-sectional regression models; and, (3) province-level CO2 emission intensities are spatially correlated and the rate of convergence, when controlling for spatial autocorrelation, is higher than with the non-spatial models.

Keywords: CO2 emission intensity; Convergence; Spatial dynamic panel data; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.015

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