IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/applec/v56y2024i60p9121-9139.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Regional productivity in the transformation of China’s energy structure –estimation of the restricted cost function

Author

Listed:
  • Hongjun Guan
  • Haoxin Wang
  • Zhenzhen Sun
  • Aiwu Zhao

Abstract

In this study, energy structure is introduced into the restricted cost function to study the influence of energy structure transformation (EST) on regional productivity. The analysis indicates that: (i) the average annual productivity of various regions in China has a positive growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6.97% and a downward growth trend from 12.15% to 4.13%. Technological progress has the greatest positive contribution to productivity growth, while energy structure and scale effect have slight negative effects. (ii) Further regional empirical analysis reveals a gradient distributions of eastern > central > western area for productivity growth. Although the effect of technological progress in western area is greater than that of eastern and central areas, low energy efficiency has dragged down its productivity growth. (iii) Factor input bias analysis demonstrates that technological progress tends to factor saving, while energy structure adjustment tends to a slight factor using with different preferences in regions. Inspired by the empirical results, strategies for optimizing policies and regional collaboration are proposed from a systematic perspective.

Suggested Citation

  • Hongjun Guan & Haoxin Wang & Zhenzhen Sun & Aiwu Zhao, 2024. "Regional productivity in the transformation of China’s energy structure –estimation of the restricted cost function," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(60), pages 9121-9139, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:56:y:2024:i:60:p:9121-9139
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2023.2298659
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00036846.2023.2298659
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00036846.2023.2298659?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:56:y:2024:i:60:p:9121-9139. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RAEC20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.