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APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 150, Issue -, Pages 286-295Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.015
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CO2 emission intensity; Convergence; Spatial dynamic panel data; China
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This study offers a unique contribution to the literature by investigating the convergence of province-level carbon dioxide emission intensities among a panel of 30 provinces in China over the period 1990-2010. We use a novel, spatial dynamic panel data model to evaluate an empirically testable hypothesis of convergence among provinces. Our results suggest that: (1) CO2 emission intensities are converging across provinces in China; (2) the rate of convergence is higher with the dynamic panel data model than the cross-sectional regression models; and, (3) province-level CO2 emission intensities are spatially correlated and the rate of convergence, when controlling for spatial autocorrelation, is higher than with the non-spatial models. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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