Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China

Huwei Wen, Weitao Liang and Chien-Chiang Lee ()

Utilities Policy, 2022, vol. 79, issue C

Abstract: Using a quasi-natural experiment and city-level panel data from 2009 to 2018 in China, this paper investigates the impact of broadband infrastructure on green total-factor energy efficiency. Empirical results show that Broadband China Strategy has improved the green total-factor energy efficiency by an average of 2.61%, and the improvement effect is only found in central and western as well as small and medium-sized cities. Broadband infrastructure can promote trade openness and improve green total-factor energy efficiency in cities with higher initial trade costs and those with lower initial trade openness. Besides, broadband infrastructure promotes green total-factor energy efficiency through technology diffusion rather than innovation.

Keywords: Sustainable energy development; Broadband infrastructure; Green total-factor energy efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2022.101414

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