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| Energy Efficiency, Environmental Pollution and the Transformation of China's Economic Development Mode |
| BAI Junhong, NIE Liang
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| School of Business, Nanjing Normal University |
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Abstract Previous studies have paid attention to the relationship between energy efficiency and economic development, but they ignored the improvement of environmental pollution in the process of energy utilization. In this paper, the environmental pollution variables are included in the framework of energy efficiency analysis, and the EBM-DEA model is used to measure the energy efficiency of each region in China. It empirically examines the impact of energy efficiency under environmental constraints on the economic development mode, using dynamic spatial panel models. The results show that China's economic development mode has obvious spatial correlation and path dependence. Compared with energy efficiency without environmental constraints, the impact of energy efficiency under environmental constraints on the economic development mode is more obvious, which also shows that if the environmental pollution improvement effect is neglected, it will underestimate impact of energy efficiency on the transformation of economic development mode. The conclusions of this paper provide the policy enlightenment to enhance the level of energy efficiency in China and accelerate the transformation of economic development mode.
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Received: 09 October 2017
Published: 16 November 2018
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