An empirical research on the relationship amongst renewable energy consumption, economic growth and foreign direct investment in China
By Weiyang Fan, Yu Hao. Renewable Energy, 2020
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China's economy has flourished since reform and opening up. At the same time, China's ability to attract foreign investment in the world continued to increase. However, with the rapid development of the economy, China's energy crisis and environmental pollution have been continuously deepened, exposing increasingly serious problems in the energy consumption structure. As a critical mean to address the environmental problems and achieve sustainable development, the production and utilization of renewable energy resources is particularly critical. This paper aims to investigate the relationship amongst renewable energy consumption, foreign direct investment and gross domestic product in 31 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2015. Specifically, the unit root test, cointegration test, vector error-correction model, impulse response function analysis, and Granger causality test are employed for the estimations. The empirical results indicate that there is a long-term and stable equilibrium relationship between gross domestic product per capita, foreign direct investment per capita, and renewable energy consumption per capita. Additionally, in the short term, foreign direct investment cannot significantly cause renewable energy consumption change; but in the long run, a modest slowdown in gross domestic product growth and targeted foreign direct investment will generate a significant boost on renewable energy in China.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- Asymmetric impact of renewable and non-renewable energy on economic growth in Pakistan: New evidence from a nonlinear analysis (2020, methodology): “(Fan and Hao, 2019) applied the dynamic generalized method of moments (GMM) panel model to examine the relationship between economic growth, carbon dioxide emissions, and the effect of imports and exports on renewable energy in different provinces in China.”
- Tourism, economic growth, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in China (2020, methodology): “Consequently, some studies have focused on the relationships among China’s economic growth, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions beyond tourism (e.g. Chen et al., 2019; Fan and Hao, 2020).”