Effects of substituting energy with capital on China's aggregated energy and environmental efficiency

被引：29

作者：

Yang, Mian ^{[1
,3
]}

Yang, Fu-Xia ^{[2
]}

Chen, Xing-Peng ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China

[2] Lanzhou Univ, Sch Econ, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China

[3] Duke Univ, Nicholas Sch Environm & Earth Sci, Durham, NC 27708 USA

来源：

ENERGY POLICY | 2011年 / 39卷 / 10期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Factor substitution; Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA); China; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; INTENSITY; ECONOMY; COSTS; DEA;

D O I：

10.1016/j.enpol.2011.07.006

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Substituting energy with capital (SEC) in economic productions has become a common practice both for business owners and policy-makers to improve their energy and environmental efficiency. However, seldom previous studies on energy efficiency and/or environmental performance evaluation took this role into account. This paper aims to shed some light on the effects of SEC on China's aggregated energy and environmental efficiency (AEEE) within a parametric stochastic frontier analysis framework. Moreover, influencing factors of regional efficiency score are also discussed using a pooled regression model. The results indicate that SEC poses significant effects on improving China's AEEE, and this impact appears obvious regional variation that regions with lower efficiency scores hold more extensive potential to improve their AEEE by means of SEC. Furthermore, upgrading industrial structure and decreasing the proportion of coal in energy consumption make great sense to improve China's AEEE. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：6065 / 6072

页数：8

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