Quantitative Evaluation and Characteristic Analysis of Resource Allocation Efficiency of the Energy Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Wanhao Dong (), Jin Yao and Bochao Zhang
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Wanhao Dong: School of Public Finance and Administration, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai 201620, China
Jin Yao: Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai 200020, China
Bochao Zhang: Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai 200020, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 24, 1-18

Abstract: The resource allocation efficiency of the energy industry in the Yangtze River economic belt is related to the green and high-quality development of the region. This study constructed a quantitative model which modified from the traditional HK model to evaluate the efficiency of energy industry resource allocation. This paper makes a quantitative evaluation of the efficiency of inter-industrial and inter-regional resource allocation of the energy industry in the Yangtze River economic belt from 2000 to 2019. The results show that: the average annual loss of total factor productivity of the energy industry in the Yangtze River economic belt is as high as 25.11% due to the misallocation of resources among the energy industries, capital misallocation, labor misallocation, and intermediate input misallocation were 12.32%, 7.08%, and 5.08%, respectively. The misallocation of resources among the energy industries of the provinces in upper, middle, and lower reaches is gradually increasing in turn. The average annual loss of total factor productivity (TFP) in the energy industry of the Yangtze River economic belt is 6.5% due to the misallocation of resources between regions. Capital misallocation, labor misallocation, and intermediate input misallocation were 2.48%, 3.40%, and 0.63%, respectively. In the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the labor force, capital, and intermediate input of each province’s energy industry were misallocated to a different extent. According to the trend of resource input in the energy industry of various provinces and cities, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River also show different characteristics.

Keywords: Yangtze River economic belt; energy industry; resource allocation; total factor productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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