Impact of China's renewable energy product exports on host countries' energy transition R&D: The role of population aging

Junjie Zhang, Shiwei Yu, Yundie Hu, Xing Hu and Wenqing Zhang

Energy Economics, 2025, vol. 144, issue C

Abstract: The global challenges of population aging and energy transition (ET) are becoming increasingly intertwined. China's exports of renewable energy products (REPs) play a pivotal role in addressing the rising global demand for ET solutions. However, the combined effects of population aging and China's REP exports on host countries' research and development (R&D) investments in ET remain underexplored. This study employs an Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to examine the dynamic impacts of aging and China's REP exports on R&D investments in renewable energy (RE), power, and storage technologies. Utilizing panel data from 33 countries between 2000 and 2023, the findings reveal that, in the short term, China's REP exports suppress host countries' ET R&D investments by substituting domestic R&D efforts.

Keywords: Energy transition; Aging; ARDL; Research and development investments; Renewable energy product exports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108310

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