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Can financial agglomeration narrow the urban-rural electricity consumption gap in China?
This paper mainly examines the effect of financial agglomeration (FA) on the urban-rural electricity consumption gap (UECG) using a Chinese provincial panel dataset. Firstly, a two-way fixed effects model is used to regress the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2021, the results show that UECG decreases as FA increases, and there is a significant inverse proportionality between FA and UECG. Secondly, the analysis of regional heterogeneity shows that this inverse proportionality is more significant in developed regions, but not in underdeveloped regions. Then it is also found that when the number of green patents is above a certain threshold, the increase in the degree of FA causes UECG to fall sharply, but when it is below the threshold, the increase in the degree of FA causes UECG to fall a little slower. Finally, we draw our main conclusions, briefly analysing the reasons for such results and making some recommendations for future researches and policies.
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.