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›› 2016, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (5): 641-650.DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2016.05.010

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Empirical study on the influencing factors of coal consumption in Shanxi province

DONG Jiefang1,2,3, WANG Qiang2, WANG Xingmin2,3, ZHANG Xiaolei2,3   

  1. 1 College of Resource and Environment Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830011, China;
    2 Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Science, Urumqi 830011, China;
    3 University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2015-07-08 Revised:2016-04-11 Online:2016-09-15

Abstract:

In this study, the method of logarithmic mean Divisia index and vector autoregression model were used to analyze the influence factors of coal consumption in Shanxi province during 1988-2013. The results are as follows. 1) The wealth effect is the main driver of growth in total coal consumption. 2) In the short term technological progress suppresses coal consumption, but there exists "rebound effect" in the long run. 3) Population plays a weak role in promoting flow growth of coal consumption while the contribution rate of urbanization to coal consumption of the stock is up to 30.91%. 4) The impact of industrial structure adjustment on coal consumption in Shanxi is very weak, and variance decomposition shows that the average contribution rate is only 3.98%.

Key words: coal consumption, influence factor, LMDI, VAR Model, Shanxi province

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