Sources of energy productivity growth and its distribution dynamics in China

Chunhua Wang ()

Resource and Energy Economics, 2011, vol. 33, issue 1, 279-292

Abstract: The purposes of this paper are to determine the sources of energy productivity growth at the provincial level in China and to examine the relative contributions of the sources and their impacts on regional inequality. Energy productivity change is first decomposed into five components attributable to changes in capital-energy ratio, labor-energy ratio, output structure, and technical efficiency change and technological change. Then a nonparametric analysis is implemented to statistically test the relative contributions of the components and their roles in the distribution dynamics of energy productivity. It is found that (1) changes in capital-energy ratio, output structure, and technological change contribute to energy productivity growth in China, (2) increase in capital-energy ratio caused by capital accumulation is the primary driving force for energy productivity growth, and (3) capital accumulation contributes to energy productivity convergence between Chinese provinces over the time period of 1990-2005.

Keywords: Energy; productivity; Data; envelopment; analysis; Growth; Convergence; Nonparametric (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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