Firm clustering, agglomeration externalities and energy efficiency: Evidence from chinese industrial enterprises

IF 14.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Economics Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI:10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108451

Zhili Du, Peng Hao

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Abstract

In the context of rapid industrialization and transition to a low-carbon economy, it is of great practical significance to clarify the intrinsic connection between industrial agglomeration and energy utilization efficiency. This study builds on the theory of relational economic geography to conceptualize clustering as the geographic concentration of enterprises' horizontal and vertical linkages within the value chain. We investigate the effects of firm clustering on enterprise energy efficiency from a micro perspective. The results indicate that specialized agglomeration and coagglomeration significantly enhance enterprises' energy efficiency, influenced by the geographic concentration and input-output correlation. Moreover, we analyze how clustering improves energy efficiency through three mechanisms: knowledge spillovers, energy input allocation, and productivity improvement, in terms of Marshallian agglomeration externalities. These findings enrich the literature on environmental externalities of industrial agglomeration and provide some insightful references for policymakers.

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企业集聚、集聚外部性与能源效率：来自中国工业企业的证据

在快速工业化和向低碳经济转型的背景下，厘清产业集聚与能源利用效率之间的内在联系具有重要的现实意义。本研究以关系经济地理学理论为基础，将集群定义为企业在价值链中横向和纵向联系的地理集中。本文从微观角度考察了企业集聚对企业能效的影响。研究结果表明，专业化集聚与混凝显著提高了企业的能源效率，并受到地域集中度和投入产出相关性的影响。此外，本文还从马绍尔集聚外部性的角度分析了集群如何通过知识溢出、能源投入配置和生产率提高三种机制来提高能源效率。这些发现丰富了产业集聚的环境外部性研究文献，并为政策制定者提供了一些有见地的参考。

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Energy Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

18.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

524

期刊介绍： Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.