Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change

With double-digit economic growth, mounting consumer demand and being roused industry potentialities, China’s ascendancy has been marked “the start of a new age in the history of energy.” Understanding the impacts of technological change and diffusion in a large carbon-intensive country like China...

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Autor principal: Zhang, Miao
Formato: H2
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SLU/Dept. of Economics 2012
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description With double-digit economic growth, mounting consumer demand and being roused industry potentialities, China’s ascendancy has been marked “the start of a new age in the history of energy.” Understanding the impacts of technological change and diffusion in a large carbon-intensive country like China is essential for getting acquainted with the future trajectory of global energy demand. In this paper, we examine the evolution of long-run energy demand owing to directed technological change (DTC) and predict the future behaviour of the energy demand in China by setting up a theoretical model of DTC with two inputs, energy and labour, and interactional factoraugmenting knowledge, then simulating the model with data about China since 1980. The modelling of knowledge stocks help us to acquire a new understanding of the interaction among energy, technological change and economic growth.
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spelling RepoSLU51762013-01-18T14:11:47Z Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change Zhang, Miao energy demand prediction factor-augmenting knowledge relative price of energy directed technological change DTC endogenous growth simulations China With double-digit economic growth, mounting consumer demand and being roused industry potentialities, China’s ascendancy has been marked “the start of a new age in the history of energy.” Understanding the impacts of technological change and diffusion in a large carbon-intensive country like China is essential for getting acquainted with the future trajectory of global energy demand. In this paper, we examine the evolution of long-run energy demand owing to directed technological change (DTC) and predict the future behaviour of the energy demand in China by setting up a theoretical model of DTC with two inputs, energy and labour, and interactional factoraugmenting knowledge, then simulating the model with data about China since 1980. The modelling of knowledge stocks help us to acquire a new understanding of the interaction among energy, technological change and economic growth. SLU/Dept. of Economics 2012 H2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/5176/
spellingShingle energy demand
prediction
factor-augmenting knowledge
relative price of energy
directed technological change
DTC
endogenous growth
simulations
China
Zhang, Miao
Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change
title Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change
title_full Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change
title_fullStr Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change
title_full_unstemmed Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change
title_short Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change
title_sort predicting the future of china's energy demand in terms of directed technological change
topic energy demand
prediction
factor-augmenting knowledge
relative price of energy
directed technological change
DTC
endogenous growth
simulations
China