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Factors Influencing Energy Intensity In Four Chinese Industries, Karen Fisher-Vanden, Yong Hu, Gary Jefferson, Michael T. Rock, Michael Toman

Economics Faculty Research and Scholarship

In this paper, we investigate the determinants of decline in energy intensity in four Chinese industries - pulp and paper, cement, iron and steel, and aluminum. This paper attempts to answer the following key question: For the purpose of promoting energy efficiency, do prices, technology, enterprise restructuring and other policy-related instruments affect various sectors uniformly so as to justify uniform industrial energy conservation policies, or do different industries respond significantly differently so as to require policies that are tailored to each sector separately? In this paper, we examine this question using data for China's most energy-intensive large and medium-size enterprises …