Electric Power ›› 2016, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (9): 114-118.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.2016.09.114.05

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Regional Differences and Non-equilibrium Relationship Between Energy, Economy and Environment in China

XU Yang, HE Yongxiu   

  1. School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
  • Received:2016-03-01 Online:2016-09-10 Published:2016-09-28

Abstract: It was found that a long-run co-integration relationship exists from energy consumption to economic growth and unidirectional causality exists from energy consumption to carbon dioxide emissions. Specifically, when the energy consumption increases by 1% in the provinces of G, H and J, the economy will increase by 0.76%, 1.41% and 1.44%. When the relationship between economic growth and energy consumption deviates greatly from the long-term equilibrium, these three provinces will spontaneously return to equilibrium at the speed of 0.064, 0.039 and 0.240; when the opposite situation occurs, these numbers will be 0.042, 0.023 and 0.11. In the development stage of industrialization, the higher the rate of the secondary industry’s contribution is, the faster the return speed will be.

Key words: energy, economy, regional differences, asymmetric error correction model

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